Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03b9ed815d543c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 16:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 2a3d168dabf198ec56f6f4fadd16a7ee SHA-1: 4b09910a1d4f997657cc4445cf795cd100dec3b8 SHA-256: 03b9ed815d543c6a7cee88a06351c9316cab98831d501a706e09371aa65d9f46
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to potentially malicious domains. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' indicates a strategy to distribute content or phishing lures across many disposable hosts. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of many external URIs suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to external sites for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.3127

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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
  • 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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=clumsy+ninja+unlimited+gems PDF link annotation
    • https://speculatio.in/userfiles/file/tejawizivetirerefeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thestarbusan.net/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210902_99E914EDB8EC8C7D.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/41564359176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ptk-tent.ru/userfiles/file/ludifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neurooperations.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53884208160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fotosvatba.net/userfiles/file/vabakonilesukelemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://strandedtattoo.info/file/bubed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54413931542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indikino.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tifiloku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202109081137028521.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sculecuacumulator.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/xevenurovijuloxojekiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sun-green.be/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bivizemesalibokalolud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allmedicus.com/userfiles/file/45604384467.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nhabe.com.vn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/86770345930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://life-worldwide.org/assets/uploads/files/61978873207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://semangkabiji.com/contents/files/53563034473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://freshchannels.com/home/sites/freshchannels/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73165364809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbaze.lv/images/userfiles/files/jivogoxejebujunafovano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://partroyfuneralhome.com/partroy/assets/file/24790746834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinluatudong.com/uploads/userfiles/file/97129066052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcvitamin.com/webroot/img/files/27793742851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alothongtin.com/upload/FCK/file/43027304564.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.totalblissbeauty.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25159855092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didula.ru/img/file/fulupob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.ru/files/file/98219035030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ideviceplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/wotogosorukesatibil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d67e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD67E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE90 17616 bytes
SHA-256: a2a673559ac17a12b9a642a174e5a713c92229be428081609dd780e8be75766b