Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba54bcde1aea56f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

119.2 KB Created: 2021-04-07 14:13:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 035b0c99be224709c07ee449eb817a09 SHA-1: d6738594ff83881a61da4b332c57ef6795f356c2 SHA-256: 4ba54bcde1aea56fb7ff6974e10c1e0ff4c95490841a8f540bb8381d9ef91582
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to disposable domains, indicative of a link farm used for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' further supports a phishing or scam pretext, likely aiming to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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://midufefew.ru/aws?utm_term=how+to+watch+the+ball+drop+on+roku PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454436/normal_606cce6a06f9d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastpysystem.online/all_physics_formulas_download_class_12835h5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezumitisud.mygamesonline.org/78851718181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trendmobile.ru/rarurexoledupojisafosuj725dp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkmz2.club/1616515351thfu2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://coupons2020.info/lezumuverunutopaxkfq6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vuxilenusip.mypressonline.com/35737135734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xtina.online/what_are_the_risk_assessment_procedureswquiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazisim.mywebcommunity.org/piramide_alimenticia_para_nios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/navimoxa/oWqhcjd/26581579198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tusiteguluvora.getenjoyment.net/cleveland_clinic_cardiology_board_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trickyturkey.com/speaklar_english_speaking_practice_app_downloads21fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/baxoladipezu/4RjeWje/se_dice_in_spanish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449630/normal_5fd36a3ea6935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449776/normal_604b8cf36711c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://securespot.ru/how_do_i_create_a_timeline_template_in_powerpointuu8a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mipekakiri/hbhjYie/word_search_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vamapoludi/iqsghii/funny_video_whatsapp_status_download_share_chat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://politach.com/human_anatomy_for_artists_the_elements_of_formq0huy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fumiposamisur/49729799789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xenavuxa/15405687447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gavapozalilup/zofusikemiwesujesagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wetevali/berklee_performance_center_beatles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mexesazaxasa/fallout_2_android.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_off000191f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x191F4 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 19337082a292f6688302082bcf18cf69291852b1e1dc3cc2d4fb023432ac987d
font_01_sfnt_off0001a3c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3C7 12192 bytes
SHA-256: f4d18924748b6b05a5357cad09b7601297bf9cac00f6bc3041f389a33f8cdb1b