Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ae25e2e16e8c1e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-06-06 00:36:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: f7b150b3bd97d69e5ef27b6cb9f5f9c1 SHA-1: b30f0fe4f4fff0045e14277ca4685ad4c75041dc SHA-256: 1ae25e2e16e8c1e0f6265074a290c5d3edab583b1e5c52ecb95dd621309857ec
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://ketchas.ru/pbw?utm_term=ignou+m.com+2nd+year+solved+assignment+2020-21+guffo PDF link annotation
    • https://jijelejo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134590633/wuxuwiwozo_rojorowuxobif_wewitejaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vowizata.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856430/6576368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pomawuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134368023/gurewowajuwevexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimejimewib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134608848/704a7a09541c0ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tifunubuxeji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134523212/7540c29a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rimidewazasi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317879/8991367.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://padipemoton.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739419/9955295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://palejemevat.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144586848/39497954678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fiwonotexo.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144687303/big_but_boring_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f78969ac-8185-4daa-8eaf-a2ef0d08e9ef/azan_ke_baad_ki_dua_in_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://betosaxugawi.pbworks.com/f/printable_vinyl_htv_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tebejeloxid.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144424218/deductive_reasoning_test_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4b1a25d5-8273-4f84-ac2f-67a485c33f6d/20876707190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b618abc8-5aae-4552-b396-1acb9140082c/bowflex_ultimate_2_manual_assembly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/101efb6d-31b1-4358-9f81-f9121e91ba09/lufiwedolino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3d10c2ea-410d-40d3-8546-72caefb40442/bikagoxulivewizur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef88542f-2490-4351-aa55-868dfeeb79fa/ffx-2_walkthrough_100_percent_ps2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/57ef860f-5117-4967-8045-1f37fd9651b1/propiedad_conmutativa_asociativa_y_distributiva_ejercicios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e541e2f6-4b37-4d9d-a1d7-7b2e7b62e3b7/xelezupejem.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_off0000e385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE385 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 8e432b9325ffe1af57e6c5c42ae0511f45e8f841ff19424a67a188ef447f2223
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6F3 10656 bytes
SHA-256: 34ece1729ff3cb3deeec98e8327bc2873dd4bb681f167fb7d2552dc36fbecaac
font_02_sfnt_off00011b18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B18 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378