Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e383a69b0ecdd362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-06 09:35:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-17
MD5: ebbd61f077016ed53eabb12ed544ac38 SHA-1: 17f1013f122e32b71d9300e24fe6639fc6d5ace1 SHA-256: e383a69b0ecdd3624dc538a0db1e5cc89cebd459e42da1e3c471651b3dbd1209
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating it is likely a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains numerous links to external sites, many of which are hosted on compromised CMS platforms or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ntse+exam+question+paper+in+tamil+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://ciaooo.ru/uploades/userfiles/file/fimoninetiwadegimugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goactive.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5669280ff6c93c56f3d7a76fdca749e9/93747938320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adbadog.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0a4fc90e306b275145aa905ccd4a8fe5/60711386025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thewhitmerlawfirm.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/81183608087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.klimavill.com//data/editorfile/rolafodomozogivasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynigaoe.com/upload/file/20210518012349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aow.infogestnet.it/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pijivusabarifoburarimaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://playeasypiano.com/resources/fck_images/verabepovopokusit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namratalakhotia.com/userfiles/files/xulifomadeliwalejutazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.growxponential.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/h3bbgvuh5f0knootauflgs8u25/56396147383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3dreamvr.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/597bf75b3a84a43a96a95800b2ebc409/98667406536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grupohk.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16076e7e6d6d1a---23799699580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syntellect.ru/Repository/file/99540753774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zapret-rf.org/web/img/podborky/files/71748642104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cargeacrew.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608ff2ac03c81---vebuxuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jun-travel.com/userfiles/file/piduted.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://btegypt.com/file/45575925776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gymlesgeants.com/upload/editor/file/duwipuvure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://admio.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609b01e00afc8---38546036274.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kadinlarsitesi.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16120468ac2eea---sisunigeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pavillonwohlen.ch/userfiles/files/14405108754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chrisnoblelaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/jefufedekutumavilekis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psychotherapie-dr-albrecht.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8ee4c45ba---93996453693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaget.com/userfiles/files/mexolabegiwenewejavawi.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE271 17944 bytes
SHA-256: 0c7b57aac3ec0c910f9cea06c32bff74267ea5124a2e0b7a9de9177019ce3b2d
font_01_sfnt_off00011140.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11140 10984 bytes
SHA-256: a60b503d6bd53aba4e3451ec59b7de618fad2af00fd4b7ef90e88260c472bb11
font_02_sfnt_off00012a87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A87 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1