Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 16a6bcabb6eb2900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-05-31 16:11:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 891484d49e3807a22db9e9118cc9aca9 SHA-1: 862a7a8c4b09f8a47dcd38a942a76964f76b4a6d SHA-256: 16a6bcabb6eb290022d448961c8583508fd4cbe4316ce7fe57918a9b9b7992ed
176 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating malicious content. The presence of a large number of external links, many pointing to Weebly and Strikingly hosted PDFs, suggests a link farm or redirection scheme. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential phishing or tech-support scam pretext. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs are indicative of malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://ponafet.ru/123?utm_term=jio+play+store++404 PDF link annotation
    • https://buwirudoxux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597973/ab9aa4ac28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4388038/normal_5ffb75f1c64e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zebonusifok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134509505/135819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4459640/normal_5ffe70585aa58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445119/normal_5fe27ef19181e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nanewibogexuro.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382113/zisivixebizudoravi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4385230/normal_5fe9e500ed405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4447079/normal_606216d909773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365634/normal_5fe6a76f37a59.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473044/normal_6024cbc13c379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467287/normal_604a7bfd451c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4483362/normal_606b63a5122b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fozijiruzixusap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317533/2062548.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367297/normal_6039d93d178b7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4421061/normal_5ff371aa90b16.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/06a48446-4c4c-407d-bb79-524bbedbf2c2/jalajadowezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b5333efe-c52f-4d65-8929-41da7f477b72/how_to_solve_a_compound_interest_problem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a1b89fc5-805c-4571-aa24-f10b1e3b024f/windows_10_pro_product_key_generator_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/811e7f93-7ffc-4300-9206-377344269abf/how_did_the_spanish_react_to_france_attempting_to_colonize_texas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2db96c7a-5487-4405-871b-285dfd5d1f3a/lenijuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/24f8cb29-219e-421a-81f7-540a3df9f45b/83420590524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2ac9caf-c6a6-449a-a433-1c2b761fd322/42132999454.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_off0000f077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF077 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 943a6b9512568b5130ac6278760fe9110a885be1bade387f87f51d5c131d1555
font_01_sfnt_off0001020a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1020A 11052 bytes
SHA-256: 125d356c3251425e5203c57f7ae97701665c08337228e489a9686ff9fcbf58da