Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cdc52a6379011dd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.3 KB Created: 2021-09-08 19:11:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 6c674c245607c2f796a7988d6975536e SHA-1: 3be75ce02769052ebd99bdb56a55986f5ae83e7b SHA-256: 4cdc52a6379011ddee0c5fc7b9b146ff21185a0900c1055138207c58b7bcbe8e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating it is designed to host malicious content or redirect users. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the user is prompted to call a number. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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 http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/66734741215.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cungcapbaoduongcuanhatban.com/upload/files/bovekisikekepumed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68493444629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unitec-egypt.net/userfiles/file/14808951641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ecostroyservis.ru/File/89911725141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fcraregistration.com/UploadedData/file/87531282600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://spy-military-labs.com/userfiles/file/fewodexudazavawow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ustunongel.com/image/files/bakoropimesanurov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeline-sports.com/files/file/kijoveviribobuxezigepuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lica.plovdivweek.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/25278989560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cameronhaddock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135b487bc3f3---48542528079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kochitaxirental.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94458943222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://majedalkarkhi.com/pics/file/vimazureweburuduwad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://websbag.com/uploads/files/29180281093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bookblog.kr/data/file/files/96971487829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qamsar.org/userfiles/files/robefifiselaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vita-organic.eu/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/metiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bnbtravels.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59793795752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dkstores.gr/userfiles/file/45849253906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/defimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jts-electrical.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59153344203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigmabhp.pl/userfiles/file/71221623729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piemonteforyou.it/userfiles/file/xuruk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ajivikafinance.com/userfiles/file/77775374447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14226847316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=muster+privater+darlehensvertrag+pdfPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000e53a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE53A 10816 bytes
SHA-256: 90bb829f5e16e956901161895e9c4b7ba7fc3eba2664f8223aa57de1eafddee8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fde8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDE8 19772 bytes
SHA-256: 8b1ac8336fee61915dd37cb4cc249907cbe1876a8e9bfe78b1779029eccf1d6d
font_02_sfnt_off00012f82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F82 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1