Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5162403e6793c797…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 663b9cdac9b77d76312a14ed6ddccd80 SHA-1: 05394e553703bfa11628ea96744c3474af3a0304 SHA-256: 5162403e6793c79793b59a486f69ca6141e1c5882d466851ef997334813db2af
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and exhibits characteristics of a link farm. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into calling a number, likely for a scam or phishing operation. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the link farm heuristic strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://philabc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=c%23+lab+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.skupp.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613839354c0cb---12370679591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://exosportsante.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zekaxaxixowononozimad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanruouvang.net/images/uploaded/file/2125223959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalimati.in/userfiles/file/savutixonakiret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ride-on-earth.com/images/blog/file/pawisiziwelel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.bash.cl/media/file/nilabuvakozidifajiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://berallebags.com/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210910202200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lngpetro.com/userfiles/file/lanuname.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://huaku3c.tw/uploads/files/202109052337128880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onnetsolution.in/userfiles/file/mojunesivutus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suliaok.com/v15/Upload/file/20219102052236319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ediliziaunoaventi.com/userfiles/files/59090076592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://diamant-x.sk/UserFiles/file/98390960109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.reparaciondebomba.com.ar/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e92qm9pjkd4oq59vnuspgbc0b2/85572101017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andreuma.madteam.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bifujupasofadulesezedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jfac.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50920505539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://anup.bo/images/files/61412763498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eqonetech.com/upload/userfiles/files/83836230717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ankaser.com/userfiles/file/92799833374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hichipper.com/hichipper/uploadfile/file/2021090501315773499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chambres-a-la-ferme-plouzelambre.fr/userfiles/file/16124311012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----7sbab1bcaqplb0ccyi9d.xn--p1ai/files/file/komesew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibb-online.ru/f/file/1720527372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gomsuhoangminh.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/95406067767.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_off0000dc1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC1B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42D 18592 bytes
SHA-256: e36ba595e2e73d08a1b1691928e99392da881ea1733579587bd88d99b76549ef
font_02_sfnt_off00012405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12405 9104 bytes
SHA-256: fe4a9ad32d6d12da45ce8861a1e6e511df5579fd33367a5c4d1c9e774d301804