Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f3ebbb7d81fd6d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.2 KB Created: 2021-10-12 12:45:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 59f73b6dd8f33e1333f62b33ba72a6a4 SHA-1: 7d2087b15826130d14a0473192e0eba096212ce6 SHA-256: 0f3ebbb7d81fd6d7f9ba0e01d6b18bf67d6720f36fc32b5e53f2501ca769a28a
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and contains a callback lure, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a social engineering attack designed to trick users into initiating contact, likely for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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 https://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=sims+mobile+money+cheat PDF link annotation
    • http://studioassociatoemc.com/userfiles/files/21849434664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotata-zlin.cz/obr/clanky/file/27136325590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denprokhorov.ru/images/file/64549150485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/zuwikotufonadawolelur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8-hi.dataroom.tw/upload/file/38571971575.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planet-for-events.de/userfiles/file/zububadakasigutira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maidichike.com/upload/files/20704388118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marathonlaval.com/userfiles/files/fovaduvatusixevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/29720264245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://intekcanada.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/16572890601.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcstonetw.com/uploads/files/202109201213127196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://neoclassicalmansions.com/uplds/file/38559874354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juraganmonyet.com/contents/files/lewijizipajipem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://byty-pardubice.eu/UserFiles/File/rasazokopudegeremu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://flylights.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m91633tsq3lvtenbibaoc9g69p/22805875719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://austria-ex.com/images/blog/file/5922482915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uniquehotelsolutions.com/files/others/fuxevitivofebumav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.solucionaesp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pilub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/pefupewipowobegafilifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hiroi-es.info/yamituki-n/uploads/files/pakomomexufetefatabuwuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safetyservicecenters.com/userfiles/file/funonelageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kernenshepler.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/verir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://irisapp.cn/uploadfiles/fckeditor/20210904/file/16306913015373.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artmetinc.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16164f7bc74c34---91678091388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/rojuvidozugojilibuj.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_off0000e006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE006 10724 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca1b3336d8c26f04c5b44a96cfd03da98ad144bee3d6b901fa81959dc012166
font_01_sfnt_off0000f87e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF87E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011090.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11090 19688 bytes
SHA-256: 9ccbe35d0356142f27d06b96be2b272d0e2dfe6be8c7b1d08285eeefe3762f11