Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52cbc3c42d351160…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 16:19:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 2720e10fb833f31d3c5370fa2cd91047 SHA-1: fb6dca695c3758b0351d4fcbcbff1dd45aac98ad SHA-256: 52cbc3c42d351160816145fd7721e56b7652ce7f31df58628783481b0430c751
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious phishing content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in tech-support scams or refund-related phishing. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of external URLs suggests a potential for downloading further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=king+of+fighters+97+apk+full PDF link annotation
    • https://inwestorfinanse.pl/userfiles/file/judufuzoxagir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sas.edu.mn/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dainindo.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/17612586156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrosystem.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132091da0b31---favipaxujevud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aqcorth.specialty-match.com/upload/files/xabuduzowifidagedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/likazutore.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://laibros.com/ckeditor/userfiles/files/kajoba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.hebrewforreadingcomprehension.com/content/50684795030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jornalespacoaberto.com/app/webroot/datafiles/editor/files/23800353627.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaaghhaztbcd1agjgbccsgfftf.xn--p1ai/pict/file/73877227296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chetaomaynganhnhua.com/uploads/files/lebigesuximazunodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.juniorcollege.cl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/52258398476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gamylai.vn/uploads/files/94472294589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://isgsrl.it/images/file/surajusunotefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanbularicilikfestivali.com/upload/ckfinder/files/riwositel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abnicum.com/files/file/raviwulorijuvapelo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rijst.nu/userfiles/file/jinof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evohome.pl/userfiles/file/mirakojuxilinated.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mbamantra.com/ci/userfiles/files/91567330629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://happen.webasl.com/userfiles/file/12901725726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vansuloi.com/uploads/userfiles/file/jevezufaxuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoitruyengiaocodocvietnam.com/uploads/image/files/17986084322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eclipsetheaters.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161444de06d8a2---zipewetorilobasevil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.psyforyou.nl/upload/fckeditor/file/wulopupaxenexi.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_off0000cd29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD29 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e540.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE540 11040 bytes
SHA-256: 4ee7545a030f6650971cdf07de4729b7dfc2f10543211bc13185a3a3af70b92c
font_02_sfnt_off0000fef0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEF0 21872 bytes
SHA-256: 4572b07dc955ccc2b985546ba2cc00cbd8263adcfb81f980e2df8e9d3d01cbc5