Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03bff1ad7f1d7973…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-02-17 22:55:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-26
MD5: 43242ee67cac4324bc3f51d66210fc3d SHA-1: fb63d38348f401452f1d38c1c3198389292f8d28 SHA-256: 03bff1ad7f1d7973fa9560826e51e1a773975109ae96a66ae40c57c17ea613ab
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 or subdomains, suggesting a link farm or SEO spam operation. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for further exploitation.

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://druttle.ru/123?utm_term=craftsman+lawn+mower+carburetor+diagram PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kawonidoza/ii2Fji0/13301542153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ralerafuzirepob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134386916/1457757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealicaitalia.website/nitujokanozuwixameno5d4v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://toportt.online/biwekuguzewonuqb8x5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glasshookahcatering.com/appraisal_checklist_form5ta94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ruxunafifu/e4Ggija/gogaxijopuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gitogozune/cjhlCqw/33975664881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zafupusapun/ZNhgEp9/29528168709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fugolamudara/jjhdhiS/89941822088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://options.expert/marble_ramp_lab_reporti4kl3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wavinibavuma.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398010/6030569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catsism.com/used_saltwater_fishing_reels_for_salebskws.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mozoposowi/uTBkWgd/73582735950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itali-big.space/find_out_zombie_hospital_walkthroughz8apq.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/ladojenefe/horizon_zero_dawn_ign_wiki_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jejulurowev/aditya_hrudayam_kannada_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisute/frp_bypass_apk_link.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_off00010638.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10638 5480 bytes
SHA-256: 7f44be11f824dd4aa6b086261789a9c1f6e5cfccd96232f348e208639bc5a817
font_01_sfnt_off000118d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118D4 11080 bytes
SHA-256: 9d5db3f105e73fd64af33e9de7f28d44eb9c8018ac9c052f1ead9490be2c2252

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