Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 493a22877e3fe9fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.4 KB Created: 2021-03-22 17:48:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 257fb920b0006e800d7e51b01c5d0e25 SHA-1: caf78bb466f6301cf1838c496047293c165299f5 SHA-256: 493a22877e3fe9fe8d3ec3604e66b97a317f035eebe22a9b9361df67baa2600f
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates it may also be used for callback phishing or tech-support scams. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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 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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=june+sat+subject+test+cancelled PDF link annotation
    • https://pukapukipek.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134636258/rutivuzopola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/poxofufiko/egeha2r/25769854771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vexoxem.scienceontheweb.net/activities_of_daily_living_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lutaxebibutemun.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380730/taludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litizabege.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134713043/2e87d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zakewurez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134471700/visodatija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kokubexajaluk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681668/5657606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wisivelu/sWG50ge/66362217897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juzezudusota.mypressonline.com/mixovasawufaxupeberal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jagapifa/Khfihgj/dash_scatter_color_scale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://miwuzobi.sportsontheweb.net/21065636434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/libegavezu/QjfJShf/ngk_anbe_anbe_song_bgm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vivekawiga.sportsontheweb.net/determining_volume_of_joined_rectangular_prisms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ridaxaki.mywebcommunity.org/bergamoscienza_2020_programma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memisada.mygamesonline.org/zikalijovemogofetedew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://fa0867c9-8cf0-46f9-bfae-aad8e49c21f3.filesusr.com/ugd/cdba2c_bf24ab51b2fa4d84949c3063f3646a1b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fadobirak/java_spring_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://de315c38-daa2-4293-b666-e554ba9b7d65.filesusr.com/ugd/564d2e_01fbd7b53d2948f789de7172d106a45f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zemunomipazikez/naletum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b3a1a1c9-4f8f-4fb8-b7cc-7339030cc889.filesusr.com/ugd/162fe6_23a754c21b9d49358c7b99b9aedc0a65.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tefetuzuzip.myartsonline.com/tutawanok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jifedefujodu/contemplate_about_something.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f679.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF679 5040 bytes
SHA-256: 0011d7f7f590642ec2863599788ed8dde7e6a6c1b53eb38401731b6d955815fc
font_01_sfnt_off000107af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x107AF 10736 bytes
SHA-256: 60be28fe1849c3dd44151aef62de35d0b6b8fa90852460aba867660c0afc1475