Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d02556e49014c206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.7 KB Created: 2021-03-03 01:53:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-15
MD5: 79f89447acec550eb3a52a63b1f134db SHA-1: 01334e7b8e1c8853f5813af9e9dd9692171bf265 SHA-256: d02556e49014c206de8633e7a996a7a7fc4b763d92bfa93a980422e8f0abd313
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The primary URL, https://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=nikon+d5100+firmware+update, is presented as a firmware update, a common lure for malicious activity. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to a malicious site or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ponafet.ru/strik?utm_term=nikon+d5100+firmware+update PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4470835/normal_5fdb010220469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zikowajemaje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607239/1111054.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4461249/normal_602301a1b7537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://teniroge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134693228/larebon-litukapesamu-jutepexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jokilexagazoxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602179/dodori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiwerabonu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347662/zopujuvubime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bajusokizuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134400974/bedesozo-baruxaga-kirodosot-wipukutizil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403674/normal_5fe6afc529143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ponorevex.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398269/xudivedanimepibawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388038/normal_5ffb753665aae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4427103/normal_60054648cde54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485434/normal_602eb4455772b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zitavuzan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379524/sawubafudisuxama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393034/normal_5fd7d2db8ac84.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405208/normal_5ff6c31a6804f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nimuwet/16506288325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dozore/muxarabujogujuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fejenijovekozu/bedawesogozefafenovas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e89a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE89A 5304 bytes
SHA-256: bbc70474bac8807326cede10445a71e5576cfa385242a630d4a32dc950a189b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa9e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA9E 12764 bytes
SHA-256: 0140c8cbc5d5ef6fa80fd04d9183535802bdcacf1bbf0c7ec27e138d3d58e640
font_02_sfnt_off00011e6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11E6B 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 32ebec5dfaa1575ca1074871dc9c44a6aec7d14f2f96e92d998e1ca4e146b343
font_03_sfnt_off000142f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142F2 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2