Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48185b99d33418b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.8 KB Created: 2021-10-01 03:06:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 2a8316c952bb9019445da916a1c5b802 SHA-1: 65e27bbf07ec6a3dddda7cd0d28464be4692e813 SHA-256: 48185b99d33418b5cf35b3f9a01604fbc3f471c4dcb0c3d24ae218b2f25a4f64
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic specifically points to a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, where the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to potentially malicious domains, suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, preventing a more detailed analysis of its specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9939

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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 http://yonseri.org/userfiles/files/sozutisaxugizutuve.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sbstroy53.ru/img/files/najogebipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://partnercable.com/files/79536775703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://newworldss.com/uploads/file/xadutexigekiwuwixefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/kunegepagiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/letekefagepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/34209656133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciba.lv/uploaded/file/kejuzegaxilowitevokolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alrashed-alsaleh.com/userfiles/files/66333644600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robedecreateur.com/img/files/42880236443.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://influences-vegetales.eu/assets/Image/files/zuwidopas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gsprojekt.eu/userfiles/files/magejerixabapididuwina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mandarinusa.com/userfiles/file/1631393389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109290802564658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sua.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/fixovixilamofudimimujexev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://paidionresearch.com/userfiles/files/kewilubim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vietsinphar.com/uploads/files/1371893492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burelomdo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11442013205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cppzone.ru/users/blogs/file/49143339843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dogwarts.ru/sites/default/files/file/xexukolologokinoxarotep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whatifitspossible.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/30403670251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ccps.mx/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fdc0b534374754f5809be09fb62d7776/gejofivanedigunafunobeduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.adarshvidhyasankul.org/userfilesfile/fesakotol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saraya-shop.ru/upload/files/kudexulegadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://digitalpolicycouncil.org/imagenes/file/75618682500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+tell+if+your+phone+charger+port+is+brokenPDF link annotation
    • https://b2cdemo.tickets.com/content/files/xemesimuretezijakem.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_off0000b858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB858 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD06A 18392 bytes
SHA-256: 0bacc49f9730e59696720ac7df9f2e299367c674f650e379003275dc71982cd7
font_02_sfnt_off0000fea0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA0 11284 bytes
SHA-256: 58db19c5a44c61c1914327fd73749f71f81d1c302f38c115a6c473eab6125ed1