Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3c45b055af8dba9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-03-10 14:44:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: dd49ea70fbc22707681d5aa112744869 SHA-1: 702b7151c45030f843ba98c2eeab046c7289458d SHA-256: c3c45b055af8dba91036355e27945ccc2e40ddefbdbc4453e724b1bba70525e8
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which are disguised as academic notes, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic and the presence of numerous external URLs suggest the primary goal is to redirect users to other sites, potentially for malicious purposes. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious classification.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/award?keyword=zoology+bsc+1st+year+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dejazuvorira/daruxilesogusiredonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kufobuzu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135330794/5947743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rubidokezive/wamedajaxululonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fekaduvopigab/cyber_security_policy_samples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agent-ritual495.online/hyundai_car_service_center_near_medavakkam98tf4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/benuka/45424312357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thailandlove.site/the_perfumed_garden_leedstta94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmz3.club/213364858684lt9h.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teksalle.xyz/rosiflex_trio_tablet_compositioni3o1m.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopidap.scienceontheweb.net/wajolawajitobefagijifim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esclick.pro/zadupidixixa9htj2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/woberiz/tojino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gekodejevotug.medianewsonline.com/excel_vba_function.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gilulunerokife.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135296548/bigusitikotitaze.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://ed4d48c2-14ea-47f5-a89a-b82193587323.filesusr.com/ugd/8ce377_56ed1f812fae4cdfad25cd4e9c7b8a8d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://96ea5dd8-6962-4d57-b29c-fb233a715e3b.filesusr.com/ugd/ac3463_00645bef8ae84539b690fa109fe4eaf7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1639490a-f715-481e-9fb1-af38d332269b.filesusr.com/ugd/a59130_f173055f66134ad3ac5e418e85c41e1a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d90bda3b-35dd-409f-9d4b-b4a00d881a52.filesusr.com/ugd/b88e3d_0eae349a6b7c4d98bc4b87aba69079ff.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://de2a8dfc-dc8d-4d62-be3b-f97abdd17bf6.filesusr.com/ugd/c722c2_c9fe9bf3b2d340e3a6338bef9c4411fa.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://30d6ba4c-d201-4e26-8f31-a0e059b28788.filesusr.com/ugd/f9b8bb_67e97490b3004daf8975347e68baff52.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a0a5ada1-270c-452f-b092-d943fc6f0dc0.filesusr.com/ugd/306762_d354e7fa6054407b8305cbfcbd80ca9d.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000e6a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6A8 5576 bytes
SHA-256: eab58883716fc7e1d56eb10e80f11b8c3e9674fd9f0a9534d900f3590f36e675
font_01_sfnt_off0000f9bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF9BC 3204 bytes
SHA-256: 35c0a746fcdf55e64f2ba55209f6a139fa5d4ea47dce36c63c78d1e6d66b29b6
font_02_sfnt_off000106b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106B5 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 7ad2171bbad2b0b0bf23853585c42757240454b96fb7e056b5869830433118bf