Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c01a14987e67018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 17:00:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-26
MD5: 37e49aad9f882fe826c495e0b412c06d SHA-1: 43f2cb41362f9313c509bb07fcff97572740b80c SHA-256: 2c01a14987e670185bcf849689f3a25be5334af537cf51778b1b718b626c0fd1
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with numerous external URIs pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself likely facilitates the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9978

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=android+one+vs+ios PDF link annotation
    • http://mintaialuminum.com/d/files/53320695524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://discovercefalu.it/_data/images/file/20205991752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://crocepadrekolbe.it/userfiles/files/94215656119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cheevalome.com/image/upload/File/43438549512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salonorganica.ru/upload/files/pibipetesigivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hasyo.net/files/file/kiditobeguxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chaputlawoffice.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/desolekarexiwof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipsak.nl/userfiles/file/zoluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jesuseslaroca.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613214016d63d---4658912070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultingexpert.eu/fckeditor/userfiles/file/44612327237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://contabil-fiscal.ro/mm/file/kipetuzejatonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobinco.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52858278376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everywheregenes.com/uploadfile/qu26_qu106_com/files/73874548672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/41315424720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/99890323447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krupongs.com/images/file/tesakeziwowanugozonaxumul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webcertain.asia/contentupload/fckeditorUploads/organization_/file/dorobolorimuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangalargalux.com.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24595004345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhopalliteraturefestival.com/mpsdp/uploads/files/siwobopulejilekoxiduxan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cbconsulting112.ca/userfiles/files/xototirupavitimi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4998horo.gmmwireless.com/contents/files/75984932611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cageart.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143e7d2cec7e---zalibedusalubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamma-electronics-eg.com/userfiles/files/vamavolobafopunebujate.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_off0000d370.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD370 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eb86.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEB86 9980 bytes
SHA-256: 78650d694f380a1235c06b001461c8d8812e5364fdf33e6c7a84ced7741c904e
font_02_sfnt_off000101c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x101C0 17540 bytes
SHA-256: bb7956a75a8ccc5df4ceb42c71d9f0725488cd03e81b44b3480e5c5db9299f8c