Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b9d1b0a25353020…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-04-19 20:20:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 7dfbad7aff790d76a187f641de2d4f6f SHA-1: c507e2fcc5416708472ebb695a15521778b596c6 SHA-256: 2b9d1b0a2535302079e42713ec9984f4f7d4b64cf346049ae18e571b3154986a
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates it's designed to trick users into calling a phone number, likely for a scam. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it may exploit vulnerabilities or lead to malicious content, aligning with common phishing and exploitation techniques.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.blplegal.com/sites/default/files/webform/3097059720.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.afscme65.org/system/files/webform/tikat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.visitsavannah.com/sites/default/files/webform/71260674720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enwidth.com/sites/default/files/webform/resumes/58607877977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mainephilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/kimakevenowafuxopepasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/rarapenebeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aboss.by/sites/default/files/webform/32639212941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/pulipalukegibivep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/newusagolepilukakatukus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.osgeurope.com/sites/osg-corporate.dev/files/webform/kanuvanirarotugawabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.telluridescience.org/sites/default/files/tstc-applications/pagasumoxozodaxatukaliwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=lowell+5+bank+routing+numberPDF link annotation
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/61431168480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lib.asu.edu/system/files/webform/56381184371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://printandmail.princeton.edu/system/files/webform/98467125123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/sites/default/files/webform/juvuwudonuvusenovirem.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_off0000d1fe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1FE 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 6277ca84e560f8e9ffbf7844180d00b6d291655b3369e73ec1d4680d32081180
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3B0 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 284ac7f8638ca1b5478589aa60439331b8d6df7dc47d4e7d142f1d2a99555bc5