Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3eae1960dd00e47d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-10-07 20:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: f990eea3b83acfcf626637b3ec06d9a5 SHA-1: 55dfdf2412d5c9aaf12e1090e302777bb829744a SHA-256: 3eae1960dd00e47dc2f514ac63b160560610449453c39e92635b00a94ab2fb52
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating a malicious intent to redirect the user to potentially harmful websites. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' suggests the document is designed to mimic a billing or refund notification, a common tactic for phishing and scam operations. The presence of numerous links and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://pixomot.ru/uplcv?utm_term=popular+take+out+food PDF link annotation
    • https://inprovitvenezuela.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jepax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hennel.hu/sources/elemek/file/1123058869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gearcon-eng.com/file_media/file_image/file/xomop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cokhivietuc.webthoidai.com/img-vietuc/files/68963288095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doks-films.com/pcms/content/file/95888806161.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ourguarantees.com/userfiles/file/36580147491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://harringtonassociateslaw.com/Test/JabzMedicalBillingService/userfiles/file/99759409381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asijskepotraviny.cz/files/file/vonavufisizakefituboreba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://busankid.com/webfiles/board/file///78863026631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://10fci.net/userfiles/file/tirubikelenazir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://handmade.sdelaemlegko.ru/files/userfiles/files/4316449834.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://duel.pl/userfiles/file/42514478519.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delta-serwis.pl/pliki/pagolebenak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bouveau-consulting.com/userfiles/file/50116763840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glovimex.com/uploads/ckfinder/files/29968653505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/zuxivofuwopizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iknow.pl/files/file/90627559928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olymp-kiev.com/temp/fckeditor/file/fuxiwirim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hungryalex.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/329066b6121351e34ed192b3ed5d22cd/76756615990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adidravidar.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gulixotozujeziponifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zs-g.jp/app/webroot/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gudavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.com/contents/files/nulodidajaxapebi.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_off0000d0d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0D5 10320 bytes
SHA-256: 47d508acd00703c63bda42bbbcc93b4ea0c40f74050fcd5afbb829ac55b2e78a
font_01_sfnt_off0000e852.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE852 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10064 22092 bytes
SHA-256: 2756bb34c0208318e4f44cb9af2db1b516753ba25624ec96052f4c4debaed71e