Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03656a66ff072206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-05-22 06:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8d95d7f90e89dc1becd3eb8efdb7a4e4 SHA-1: 6efd2f48ea73856b392a3276bc9711ac43b86d7d SHA-256: 03656a66ff072206927c72366f79641d2b7475fe0b2a5fbdb717b375393d82c6
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'news report ks1' and references wkhtmltopdf, indicating it's likely a lure to drive traffic to malicious or ad-heavy sites. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://xezojetit.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+write+a+news+report+ks1 PDF link annotation
    • https://zunifoxorim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134320692/7483420.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496372/normal_5fed1b92b5231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388420/normal_60570ceb66053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379483/normal_6046c6479e7fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sikufotoxatufik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134458503/9642696.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durunefa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134712847/nidotobudegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4463034/normal_6008c62892aeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373301/normal_605ef6d9c854d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4408706/normal_5fcc9238da4ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fopabitibomasad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857723/4733389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vamolitewule.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134670516/samamudito_loxapo_vikimuvija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zufavaxevonek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969036/6666317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roginibexit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969264/kiguzof_tobuvewubojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuxozixer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694245/3426666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasugokadudibuk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134740653/zezopaxiwesumubuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366325/normal_6065044629909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rivazixexuguri/bianco_evento_size_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fulazelof/ms_project_2010_video_tutorial_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazifozixawus/bsf_tradesman_paper_2019_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jitimesolagun/arduino_programming_tutorialspoint.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_off0000eb6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB6C 4948 bytes
SHA-256: ce71d9c6af86cdb8b86b5a84b09974dc533b13d9df88e5c7dbb1876b5ba4c9ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC64 10592 bytes
SHA-256: 9ac13581de2a210f41d40cec75739fc7b1c8b8cdd962ed9e74a17311c87c18d9