Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2de4115a605ccea3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 06:32:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 744b482d08d28ce659c85cee48d71f91 SHA-1: a48aaa9ea7938d296a0f5abc42c5fd36ec3c173b SHA-256: 2de4115a605ccea3533b5df6aa970ff6d49de47f0734bc47a5d8cf54fd664754
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the document likely prompts the user to call a fraudulent number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious intent to deceive users, likely through social engineering tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://cpsguffanti.it/uploads/file/89670543851.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://janaturismointegrato.com/uploads/file/xuvamorosugovalewiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thaiboxes.com/piceditor/file/lezijubagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://posicert.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-24/20210924004701421620.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globaltranslation.com/demo/global_translation/beta/userfiles/files/nopamuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://op-gold.com/ck_image/files/91464725734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nuovartea.eu/userfiles/files/88435992797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://emannsltd.com/userfiles/51949968267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-urlaurora1-turbo.com/contents/files/rivadum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://roadtoring.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/c102178cabda9d94c91edec997df8e05/22563314509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://history.tlshaa.org.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90990728544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jsqnchem.com/upload/files/latadetaresafusep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boldogelet.hu/media/kemun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boston.pl/fck_pliki/file/voxilogukutadetokaropiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pbhdom.eu/userfiles/file/wesetononunadelimuweg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinsg.com/files/fckeditor/file/68093926793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerparts.com/upload/files/94764796183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agrimal.pl/userfiles/file/xatukunazaxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agriturismoilcolle.org/userfiles/file/werikuwadafakuwebavir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyflounge.nl/userfiles/file/levegenerorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelsafeway.com/userfiles/file/53156924715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.aportecnica.com/imagenes/editor/file/88862938971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whitedwarf.ru/public/images/ckfinder/files/41632525717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://peoplefoster.com/pliki/nifumikezituxina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=subway+surfers+game+for+pc+windows+7PDF 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_off0000b234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB234 18116 bytes
SHA-256: d96571420a81eeb0450fa3af64d81a62c19c4b222d01b5bc83f6e9c1150e10c3
font_01_sfnt_off0000e0bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0BD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f8d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8D4 11384 bytes
SHA-256: e30ad27c31e8c41bd2b385e08a6122253e3a22a3e4c0aa4421219d33daeffbfd