Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cfde5c1ee728c6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.8 KB Created: 2021-02-19 18:47:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 191c022cb5f0aa63c35039e91f85c2e9 SHA-1: 97da573e940fcac1c6183dec112e5f0dddda1744 SHA-256: 4cfde5c1ee728c6ae7f680490078bd8fd171b35637a27245307f2d2aaa492c3c
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits characteristics of a phishing or malware distribution lure. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further indicates a phishing attempt, likely to trick users into revealing sensitive information or downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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 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) 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://seumenha.ru/123?utm_term=do+accu+chek+lancets+expire PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kisunika/ge2Dwgi/15298354773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iminn.ru/balkar_sidhu_song_chan_vel0ykq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xewafazuk/4gfjgHC/aarp_insurance_payment.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://businesslinecenter.com/57736174540e4kq1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pebezudaxefen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134347708/vufukez_bafemuvo_kisetizesab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/futevanu/9gjhjoU/sexolosideweguwajidizufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4499636/normal_5ff0166f376e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gizoxemovefi/oBy3haE/45167795797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sogupavetut/R2SGsAS/59778105252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://namonivet.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493383/9fabb2fb039798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://durirumis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999752/modopevejuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ergors.space/xiperikupajemisojovodoxxjhs1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kotuposa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406283/572487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464068/normal_5ffb745ca85b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/posojuvapono/1wMibi9/slice_of_heaven_wareham_menu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/borefigux/phehjic/bandicam_free_download_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zatufora/gd8VG9k/gatejavazovurixevemaxir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/detaludolef/ZghM8ii/xbox_series_s_controller_compatibility.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vkrowl.com/avermedia_recentral_patch_hdcp_bypassoemuu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f567.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF567 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 05dd123fbbab9f53ab438fdf430f77ccee0cec0cadb8f5fef5a7cdec3dd11765
font_01_sfnt_off0001067a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1067A 10920 bytes
SHA-256: eb49b554bd1600b1fb7b903cab0c5175b24d0dc0f270bac42332215203d17fde
font_02_sfnt_off00012b97.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B97 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3