Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03545f04d2e5933e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-03-03 05:58:16 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 087326dbcc9ae434e1fdb89c60d4a790 SHA-1: 82ba299c1f5d525f7e25e143b315fd8c350cf27a SHA-256: 03545f04d2e5933e4a14c44cf3126cdcddd5888e3682ea98b302e76adf056b9a
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using embedded JavaScript to facilitate redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://botokaw.ru/strik?utm_term=weber+grill+tools+amazon PDF link annotation
    • http://shoop-fe.ru/modidubapumugozokuwexativ5ay0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/balapakufogo/ajhIheV/learn_northern_shaolin_kung_fu_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xezojutatow/hghzdvb/kixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://savibivo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381036/5417107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saniruguroxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134585545/a3b329052719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gupovokezatiku.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134878629/747244.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sugowixo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134588459/tajalureri-zusesu-gofakisinugajo-kenoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nanijamu/ijkjdJU/zombie_2_the_dead_are_among_us_1979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buwuxebukiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606134/futenolov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pexasuwen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134593650/pavino-dadikubibezoda-kelinebevetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wajerewuwer/fFicLje/ortel_mobile_internet_check_balance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://putojedenavaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683165/6026657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rabataxuvax/fohgEie/92308070726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/febopa/dominos_pizza_vegan_cheese_uk.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE299 4996 bytes
SHA-256: 13f2abcaa4417db83adf7c0902406428870d7550b5157520d3acf4b1990524c0
font_01_sfnt_off0000f38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF38B 10876 bytes
SHA-256: a6c30e0f18dc1e6e571d26f3aca825a52ec1d94545e76aeea0caf450bb26b733
font_02_sfnt_off000118ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118AC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71