Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f02ad96e2f21214b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-04-21 04:21:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 95f83d021e06de119ca2bbd4c609c8a2 SHA-1: 283c1d468c477070dffa25fb335009555a497455 SHA-256: f02ad96e2f21214b598150639436fdeaebcb7ee04ddcd27a90ad0a19984b8458
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains or are structured in a way that suggests a link farm. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic specifically indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for these links. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the overall structure and the presence of many links suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/tafunowusovuna.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/fifomibap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pharoxglobal.com/sites/default/files/webform/6669476875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/tidenopuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/17423244846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://grossenbacher.co.nz/en/system/files/avoidance-training-certificates/tojawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/74795851198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/59391310887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/sovurusogizafubeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/mulakipezumaxusilexuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=fireflies+by+julie+brinckloe+activitiesPDF link annotation
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/jojilekavoxojomoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://campusrec.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/26909318775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/56381184371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/bejugejotofetuxiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://community.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/22535495660.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d31f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD31F 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 71af79cedb9be85c3c0dcb4e5439c1a3f9e24693e053c47ef8bfc3c40ffb874e
font_01_sfnt_off0000e537.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE537 10244 bytes
SHA-256: cbaa624863d229863ba70d6184f4f740f07eeaab304321db5d535d751d7e601f

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