Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 197c04af23070c56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-14 05:25:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 714561460209726a49d1b2675a8cf088 SHA-1: a4ad8c096726ce5bcb3756071e42dee14420d38b SHA-256: 197c04af23070c56c85310d1f1a061a4ae1282a81b9ea2da7eac25eb522fe275
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF that exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure, as indicated by the SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristic. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to potentially malicious domains. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://es21sys.com/userfiles/file/52347885167.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://improntediteatro.it/userfiles/files/74111333308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tungafilm.com/dorceiys/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vujumepajojow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chekeeh.ir/basefile/chekeehir/files/ruteludijitoxefegep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toppelletmachine.com/d/files/89034904783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/reneboxogonisarawarivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0922.sproname.com/files/userfiles/files/50232806400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.atccs3.it/atccs3/fckeditor/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68440393784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alirezamirmohammadi.com/images/upload/files/xejakeraxelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.dnevi-sekretarjev.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613358f6f2c40---goxibatoruxopug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://charivne.info/images/file/12862952410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciogaete.com/upload/file/fiwudejovupuritaxeken.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cosanuesa.com/componentes/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nijazatuziwugunivinagujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infunplastic.com/d/files/11357379626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharmawell.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wixipofuvedap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.creativetalentnetwork.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46527660598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pluviaterra.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8688cb154df8f4e54c4e4b119fea7415/60378652032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heyratacademy.ir/file/lewebomuwikebos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nwdglobal.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/baforosanifivufefow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maryalo.com/userData/board/file/43543857795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjsyjdq.com/v15/Upload/file/2021962120378739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonioruizabogados.es/userfiles/file/69688016850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/fzgW7-mxBc0/uplcv?utm_term=la+se%C3%B1orita+julia+pdfPDF 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_off0000de73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE73 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f685.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF685 19796 bytes
SHA-256: cb3e9b3d86e2fbc187f659002f76a2a6260937eaadb4f399248c0f12ba61a847
font_02_sfnt_off000129ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x129CE 10780 bytes
SHA-256: f55a36617d2ff4b635a53ca65bba6cba6a5ab497983a4dddefd10ff587ece586