Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e150199bd3462b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.4 KB Created: 2021-03-18 14:15:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-18
MD5: 79bb94326547fcfa10200573c1730f7b SHA-1: 8751958955497b9b9ec7dcbecffff81e4990853c SHA-256: 3e150199bd3462b88045b74362865ddceb944ed9fe2aed43e224894af63aea80
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm. It contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious or phishing sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates a potential for callback phishing or tech-support scams, although no specific phone number was extracted.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/strik?utm_term=is+the+iliad+a+good+book PDF link annotation
    • http://argo-tourism.com/upstream_pre_intermediate_workbook_keyh1jmi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://usejus.pro/wofunimejilowj31n8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pixasowurixes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134904492/8621146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4492275/normal_601aafcb58249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ig-support-service.com/piredavutejakamurazetohb5rv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pe50off.info/83981197497i3mpe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sexuviruzimi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814305/nipezujepozu_xebewewabilup_nodafovetopeg_kadazenipaxate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rubeatyshop.xyz/pudabizarurasaxofireko9zo1p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471995/normal_604b7f0c49494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452609/normal_5fe238b26ba01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boxijobanopuvob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739783/178742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/324116ec-5424-4e8e-8540-8600a0f53b23/first_grade_math_workbooks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c46c713f-5e69-4c64-aad4-d86f29440f76.filesusr.com/ugd/957c7b_a4acace16adc44b59d0feac1011b2122.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://989eff4c-946f-4221-9817-1a8d60f2082d.filesusr.com/ugd/7edf14_c3f4b0768b644656916aa705209fe109.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/463d1efa-2e46-4f57-a2a9-cf790f73ae6f/wireless_gamepad_f710_driver_windows_7_64_bit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ae47a39b-2fed-4953-8805-edc9769ea272/2003_jeep_liberty_3.7_engine_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0491f86b-060d-4f4a-be23-b0d01488777f.filesusr.com/ugd/faa7ef_94c055dcd27044e29aac40bdff15f1ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6376acfe-5884-4251-b3d5-19a03c044549.filesusr.com/ugd/de3d83_72a7f9cddd8a423896316cd51f406c88.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17b6a2ce-1bd3-4d04-bb1d-8e2226933d46/iso_27001_version_2013_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9a89a7da-ede3-42eb-a537-7416be21eb2d.filesusr.com/ugd/aaaf79_076142d643de401aad70e4156fa6b563.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bfffeb97-f7d6-491b-8f2d-3bbba23e65f9/how_to_reset_bmw_e90_brake_service_light.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0a497e50-07dd-462d-832d-d8678f741a8e.filesusr.com/ugd/5f857b_aa617202480c403f95fbaf29fbc15c20.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000e8dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DD 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 334b9ce0b512693595b562ab3fc6ce1c66326e435dcc89b6906e9b77cb0f9201
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA52 11232 bytes
SHA-256: dc0805337cd2d02b0bb43fd0854beb2b5a609874bafe14cdf46ef29ab2bc86f3