Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 092e74de71b2850e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2021-04-16 11:58:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: 3aefe2c7436d7eb1e4a634738f03289e SHA-1: 21554e06c27b470369b587f8e8bc30a01fa93df4 SHA-256: 092e74de71b2850e1d5dcf8199f9eec855a9ebb7921e588b2f7234b8cfa1af3c
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the document likely contains a lure for callback phishing or a tech-support scam, prompting the user to call a number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it's designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into executing malicious content, aligning with common PDF-based attack vectors.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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://www.termis.org/system/files/webform/nibobuzokojovafizuza.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.natsihwa.org.au/sites/default/files/webform/lavajaruzapelusudixavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/29579557159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/fenalop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://portal-mysigma.com/system/files/student-proof/tevesifisota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/sixativitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/dagen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/fipeforivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.newburghgroup.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/talazeleravu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=beretta+a300+choke+tube+systemPDF link annotation
    • https://umatter.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/requests/roporopapoviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/83401752781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/90369837207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/vifixofixif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/95830943344.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d783.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD783 5668 bytes
SHA-256: f4b66422dc23f6577cb98138c82949caa8cda83c77804da160fa8d03351ee6dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000eaa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAA1 10020 bytes
SHA-256: aaba8affdd7996dacc9ca6619346141a48c5ce200c5c66e394dfbb21e89f524a