Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03cbc422a3097861…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-02-17 01:07:34 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 4ce33c1698ed9501fa38fa83ad36c302 SHA-1: 3c19e60fef9460266f80d9d9ce19fe52f4192d9c SHA-256: 03cbc422a3097861df55bcf8d8f47edab5579c17fb1b8aef5eb98060b7985b87
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically a browser extension or update installation scam. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of user trust to download further payloads or steal credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=stellaluna+book+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://kumupesefutevun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134463509/37bcd9cea71eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://legovizadedugid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856283/jivatiwaxoner_kixuraka_ruguken_gisogoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nogikukejigili.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873965/5479344.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://taxezuwijukiwum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606901/jatomupisujovumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ryukzak.digital/armageddon_meaning_in_hebrewvt78s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denizan.com/fstoppers_instagram_hashtag_guide7qtp7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lidedapomegila.iblogger.org/android_game_development_software_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tb-films.ru/89920865957l9jej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazzsheff.xyz/90410084658t1vtt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup154.site/88678475575v6qpy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gideturifit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134887905/jozuforala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://runumoviw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854062/kukomozafujuga_dapaxakoj_xitalokani_zujujeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negapisege.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134635707/9344639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezuvaju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969963/72c13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://volifinidolil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873876/jobijo_jeverotoja_japumopozer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://sojisij.epizy.com/81727050510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dixuzudes.epizy.com/template_instructions_to_counsel.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_off0000df31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF31 1964 bytes
SHA-256: cafc66053d53eb8e3277a25bdee2e7701b17d43b20e552da9cba7d884a1a5f39
font_01_sfnt_off0000e87f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE87F 5160 bytes
SHA-256: 087b5f49ec1cade935faa898b6e9af1cea591b7c53757cc8cb7d181a7abf268c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fa37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA37 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 2bf32b58020df75e663a59a70e446edcf093259f3795df469c4ecf179f791bbc