Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d03b9aa365b1244a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.5 KB Created: 2021-03-22 09:07:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: f080ba4792876289984218c93ca52149 SHA-1: a9bcafd0ee12aa56ef15534ad2d97b5eb9bd6c68 SHA-256: d03b9aa365b1244a772addbade10e15051e8226aad30579947047c910f5bc404
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with critical heuristics indicating it is part of a large link farm. The document contains numerous external URIs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation scheme. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and numerous links strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://bologen.ru/award?keyword=12th+zoology+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://gadefume.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134337819/2574702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zisapawiwako.mypressonline.com/62889683987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://katawemot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134308113/5389664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://laforefuje.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135333455/76ff09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuvobavan.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637325/falolizej_badobidevikuvu_puleraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newavutija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871734/maruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigenuwotefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012497/810124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sitebomobegux.sportsontheweb.net/24970373805.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kepuxom.mypressonline.com/1050_commandments_in_the_new_testament.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kumenesasewoton.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134773405/pukifesetopem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jawenovexexadu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012785/5176851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaxeratomox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134397216/zosab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/145dfcbf-ab9e-450f-aa34-07e911208303/safagemixerukawusojilunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e2a59fc-3b5c-4aad-ae7e-f0bdb52c1720/most_played_song_in_nigeria_right_now.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58c3957e-aa43-4318-b28f-25b471d295bd/1001_netflix_error.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e562d394-cdfb-489a-b9c9-afc0c2057cac/37115832663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6a8461ec-9117-4b95-8e73-e32da82ecfc5/nanasuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netomadutimafe.onlinewebshop.net/algorithmic_trading_ebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e1f3df4a-0f9d-4003-a467-e428386eb70e/98675338995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wokidomogu.onlinewebshop.net/sunbeam_electric_blanket_flashing_f1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pogetowem.onlinewebshop.net/castrol_10w40_magnatec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df3a25cc-4ecb-40cd-aeca-49df1c6ede8e/how_much_does_a_60_000_btu_furnace_cost.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9f899a0a-f3e3-4e9d-8855-efaf18fa19e0/maxositafimugubeveni.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_off0000eb1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB1C 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 6cf8c76b7676d816dd3ed3ae347cf6dc08fa592df2a1abe6e0293911010f286b
font_01_sfnt_off0000fd81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD81 16972 bytes
SHA-256: bbbb7d552d047bdec179d59adc3d5af2fc8417871c1cbbaba7a9d77e15e5a6dc
font_02_sfnt_off0001233b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1233B 10808 bytes
SHA-256: 446be82644365c4d269f5189d6a2327fd2e7615a2c9688521bc6bd634f567ea3