Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e41223ce01cc0e95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2021-09-28 03:07:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 2ab05e6eb68424ce13da6d6c9df57352 SHA-1: 43db66f7307c34798883adb2901e5e1257c195eb SHA-256: e41223ce01cc0e95d8ba72f5c0478b588679a4c1fbeb2c1e26918dd46bd34b6a
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, with multiple heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm pointing to compromised or disposable hosting. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dfx+pro+apk', suggest a phishing or malware distribution lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with techniques used to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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
  • 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.
  • 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=dfx+pro+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://originalavto.ru/userfiles/file/vemevezubupazobige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://247christianity.org/fckeditor/userfiles/file/380903543291632465323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chikatere.com/Upload/files/51963821368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dla-pracownika.pl/pliki_user/File/9698963405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuboni.com/uploadfile/hong202109240757512812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elitvorota.ru/f/file/41729951206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fpole.ru/sadm_files/33180327033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nmcs.ca/userfiles/files/gamazamagasab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thekreativecompany.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/zusumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tennis-samara.ru/img/file/nipofimipise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kvrhousing.com/uploads/3195130322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cerel.eu/images/wyswig_images/file/93676923415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phu-komplex.pl/pliki/file/9035298357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nsck-cykelmotion.dk/userfiles/file/zesaduwefa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cylinder96.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zixisezubisijemofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sussexweddingservices.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161354a6538519---47329707183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://all-paca.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/28953212739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturallabs.fr/userfiles/file/88741188760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vixuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://girilawfirm.com/content_files/files/romixuzemos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/54191165912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thebetterinsurance.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a5b7776371---putosujeruziwegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4e91b6d43c1924d49f2cb6fa54bc6b4a/62537363487.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_off0000b3e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3E1 9908 bytes
SHA-256: 09c22658296e772617f9b6ac1f7bf84ef40cf5d005ddcec9da225c0059eef3a2
font_01_sfnt_off0000c9d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9D7 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 16d2833810fe0b59ceac47687b449b53677f369a04341d83284b23a57f40ba56
font_02_sfnt_off0000f60b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF60B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1