Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d504801e85a7110…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-09-09 01:28:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: c43354baa80906e876feaf093dd3f32a SHA-1: 630dc18bf785308dfda13a2d530a01cfd5449412 SHA-256: 4d504801e85a711058275ef775f7d3810ff1fc37e3646424afa50b1e3e8437d3
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, including a link farm on disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic also indicates a potential phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+unlock+phone+android PDF link annotation
    • http://wisdomtours.net/upload/file/90487951925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wanfutemple.urwaydesign.com/data/file/userfiles/files/18077648608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marwaservicecenter.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/71511475545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohappy.org/userData/board/file/18791854869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpidia2.com/contents/files/mabowodawumafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://langmoon.jp/js/upload/files/38802724183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1night2day.com/UserFiles/file/68104341586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://espokebar.com/uploads/files/kawebadixenazirub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aquaticlandscape.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139346d08f09---90058245893.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiofranzoni.eu/userfiles/files/26409385270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://studiovizia.com/webroot/img/content/files/tewibiduxipidevisotineget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logopeda-empatia.pl/content/file/94357753230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://coolinterier.sk/upload/files/66178459348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otoozevran.com/resimler/files/30960041263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pharma-tools.pl/galeria/file/jevozoluzep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://299-45.com/CKEdit/upload/files/goxuzerezikewiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.europesolidaire.eu/userfiles/files/76375528042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jmclimatizacionhvac.cl/images/subidas/file/pitux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://odontoflash.eu/userfiles/files/sonanofixir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adurucui.com/ckfinder/files/80672221907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feriaalainversa.com/uploaded/files/ximekunijutewetuxelefok.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://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_off0000d239.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD239 17284 bytes
SHA-256: 6bbbf46862daeeed635429005dbd64049003a75e4ad3ed655ae719e9f4867a7a
font_01_sfnt_off0000feaf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEAF 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 2127448eaa4d264749c9af5889faa81eeba0b3543becc5950269c2ec1d7d0ded
font_02_sfnt_off00011731.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11731 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1