Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a9d1fed78108f36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.1 KB Created: 2021-04-17 19:37:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: d52c701b69a7b433626cfdd6238b4749 SHA-1: a1fb201503c567ef8db4039144ee71f4c54aa632 SHA-256: 4a9d1fed78108f36109d22a6383e022f933459bdd91bd0d36144409485c47187
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for fraudulent purposes. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall detection pattern suggest an attempt to deceive users into engaging with malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 https://leonvi.ru/strik?utm_term=serta+motion+essentials+3+remote PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ragejeli/BgjIIig/sas_survival_guide_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gutemokerezo/iikAr7D/chocolate_cake_cooking_tree.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/worijekegir/hIbKigf/3861585291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lebexuzo/wqn0ifB/95446898890.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/155be5d9-5512-4ef4-94d5-b163f05b8b97/jepoposagezasujetipaje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e510c2d5-567e-4a96-89ff-abc18316baf7.filesusr.com/ugd/8a9bcc_ff7f526cbbd145f0918ee5425faac629.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tixofimisupabev.onlinewebshop.net/autocad_3d_exercises_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mozaninukokefef.onlinewebshop.net/likizemidaturetij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1ac5d900-0c69-4f12-8b1d-4e209472b8d2.filesusr.com/ugd/828753_8ad9d30b422c4fb7991ff31a04b34b03.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a4067306-84c0-45ce-9c36-3cbb795fcb37.filesusr.com/ugd/d5b970_d44d2e64dec647cbaac05116fb101ae4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://neloralo.myartsonline.com/oh_hell_card_game_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1d3b7ea3-2be3-46ed-b4fe-8e1d43228e0d/can_you_wash_an_electric_throw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ef1f5ca4-52f5-49cd-8c65-a83ae1dc62d6/how_to_get_grants_for_non_profit_organization_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abbf68a8-5b21-4996-91be-11266bd273ed.filesusr.com/ugd/9374a7_4882d44fcb154d3690ad72f78416b5e8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7d819a96-c253-4200-a00d-f033bc8c583b/spanish_imperfect_irregular_quiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luropiw/lasiwirizirokak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1350f94c-8d6f-42b4-8351-24983ad6a49a.filesusr.com/ugd/4aae87_87e54afe75764a29aec39b12dfa3ee1d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dusameferadulo.onlinewebshop.net/50518037032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zijivevip/8294108954.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_off0000dae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE5 5100 bytes
SHA-256: 86b7d72e0b96cd2a46036f9d02e686299f8a4d11874ac1706d764c72d563dbcf
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1D 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 7cc06f21cc3b8e5fb5877a1fa8ff5f609292a683ce1a25c2d679f2a525329056