Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0decc844f5268558…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.6 KB Created: 2021-09-24 11:24:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 4367e1049a8ef77f6d13b9b276bce29b SHA-1: 295f00c0b56da434fb6722a1cef954459d12f8b3 SHA-256: 0decc844f526855862a2a3eb075d63c30a61a54f6e840eaddc3ce3f26e60eafb
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, suggesting it functions as a link farm or a distribution point for further malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic specifically points to a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the user is prompted to call a phone number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links suggest it's designed to lead the user to malicious sites or engage them in a social engineering scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

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 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 http://thebodyclubonline.com/userfiles/file/37169966149.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://chieusangducphat.com/uploads/userfiles/file/loponi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614149880efd7---fuxubasewixanikeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servicepapik.ro/files/sepomofomiwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eugensa.lt/app/webroot/uploads/userfiles/files/xelisegukudododa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koszyczarek.pl/userfiles/file/54131527102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hujanuang.com/contents/files/84708634512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fatename.com/uploads/files/202109182041458331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/wodotase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miskolciharsona.hu/pictures/file/dogelunogako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unseretochter.ch/images/file/boxetodupademo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bannhuaduong.net/upload/files/58873347304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://metafelix.it/userfiles/files/71963568930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://factorysales.com/userfiles/files/31613443444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iso-clean.fr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b71e6aa5de---zizafedimexizisumonilelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ruiguoex.com/upfile/files/2021/09/15/84943331017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dubigroup.com/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/upload/file/zubidifojajuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://elosc.com/upFile/file///ITX202109171942304413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://congluc.com/upload/files/73266259317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vrindaindia.com/php/joseph/uploads/file/90047119678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://host.keraladreamhomes.com/~viswabrahmathach/admin/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/userfiles/file/kuzovotifunakuloborisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nepalbestcargo.com/userfiles/file/wejesud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=android+go+edition+rom+downloadPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000d981.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD981 10488 bytes
SHA-256: e2be23c8ec91b7b07361fdcc57a555c2ee106aeef06ce322d8c7a3bed2bc9201
font_01_sfnt_off0000f12b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF12B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001093d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1093D 18212 bytes
SHA-256: 33bc5c0aef7afa163f6e9883881fff62ce46e89fffc5be78e050f63001fb854b