Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 296eccec09eccac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 07:14:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 1ab1d070d642d5961506ef5e0c9f1570 SHA-1: af99003875f771f456f1926c1900926d2928bf0e SHA-256: 296eccec09eccac713b9b2caf609a516f237d30d6f5befd329317a3c4d2f59d6
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' indicates the intent to trick users into calling a phone number for fraudulent purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9947

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=dav+player+android PDF link annotation
    • https://fptica.ru/images/file/rononigupugirowamilerut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jedwines.com/cmsCart/upload/file/86424971848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aapltd.net/userfiles/file/71045909638.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alatasfilms.gr/ILC/img/file/rozujukolazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/66931178213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asid.rw/userfiles/file/30083105240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perilatomsk.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67243054004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dulwichtaxi.com/survey/userfiles/files/vimomajanitofinadoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angem.fr/userfiles/file/98377894273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dampinggame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/8281939466.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mawratanews.com/armedia/uploads/files/tofekoramusakosazifapados.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spartaksedlec.cz/spartaksedlec/userfiles/file/50469269439.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lenaoyunlar.net/calisma2/files/uploads/sofujawaxiranup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.sevgiliyevideo.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cd782a8643---85440438729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/begivibawezafifomed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gusanhightec.com/userData/board/file/34792304068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://a2kat.ru/userfiles/file/87168414690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thehouseproduction.net/file/waminavifomefamefomilogoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://akicgiyim.com/userfiles/file/51850793691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://derfo.info/resimler/files/94248366698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://acsalma.hu/userfiles/files/53434027528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aymfly.com/aym_image/files/karopefurujanirexaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/6134da7d8cfa5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taeguektour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_601BF4AD83EF3DA0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fitviewer.de/files/file/97933726047.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_off0000b23d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB23D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA4F 15940 bytes
SHA-256: 37e87cceffab60f79b641443f3f41cf35780266334ff232ea821a7b7759c416c
font_02_sfnt_off0000f26d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF26D 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 0ab3e012e380d016388d107a81dfe17ca0e000c34e498c370083f6ba4e80d6c8