Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 393011f8b95ad9ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.3 KB Created: 2021-09-16 02:52:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 21359db30f3e03ce73acde3a9b70403c SHA-1: 8c7d3f80267f19a30e0718cb34e8f883894833de SHA-256: 393011f8b95ad9ced8560e5778f11ce411f9ae4e009ab7bd9065557bea284466
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm hosted on disposable domains. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests a phishing or scam pretext, likely intended to trick users into interacting with the embedded links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9971

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://coretry.ru/uplcv?utm_term=la+letra+escarlata+libro+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://lindseyderence.com/userfiles/files/20937665179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guides2alpes.fr/uploads/file/37686939076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://biroestarsa.hu/uploads/file/13165560435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altadirezione-consulting.it/userfiles/files/woluvakugidewawuwaborob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbidienmpe.net/upload/files/35074086047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://palirna-frydek.cz/uploaded/file/78160003977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gainerwindows.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/llb6ge8melpm0dgc0mgpa9g354/84974900302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://conservationenergy.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139c7c9ed76c---30015257139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viacaosaopedro.com/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gojodalumokusebovomemeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kaptenhoki.net/contents/files/20281982720.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helloslow.com/data/userfiles/files/17806858454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puginternational.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24221660656.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gabinetpro.pl/kosmetyczka/krakow/files/78593986118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luchetti.it/userfiles/files/40816291879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auburn-companies.com/userfiles/files/tazip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibkrakow.pl/uploads/files/14691284537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xeroxexpres.cz/userfiles/file/zepisavoselafekolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profm.hu/files/file/wiwupopiwutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaccugiare24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/dopuvolosuvemoxijijiwitaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polytex.de/sites/default/files/29347247317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dailythang.com/userfiles/files/kogavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duhochoangthanh.com/upload/files/jewesunelutaremepimeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anaminfo.com/attachfile/file/12655438885.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_off0000f55a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010d71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D71 10608 bytes
SHA-256: 957cac30cd4b738b146dbc1054f166a5ecb79d8496ca6a065bd998a46fd374ad
font_02_sfnt_off00012590.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12590 21220 bytes
SHA-256: b35aa80e2e9711f5630070ddbbef8bb5483833258da5914ce3d76961af0c3335