Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d159f2b2b84cc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.4 KB Created: 2021-09-18 12:45:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 90b49d27f19518b9e56b0b73f60d8e9a SHA-1: 633d03ae56e5f8e082f5800d588195b0f09ca8c0 SHA-256: 56d159f2b2b84cc8a4abe9b51e8dd7e3acd4cfafc44f9abd3fc0d2a1aebe8b1d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate embedded JavaScript and external URIs, suggesting the document is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or trick the user into visiting malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the user is prompted to call a number for a fake issue.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+pirate+bays+list PDF link annotation
    • http://forter.vn/hinhanh/file/nadogujik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://excore.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/padebakuxarezutiwesasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inkjetartandimage.com/Uploads/file/17131763104.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://funcarele.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bikifuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://behagi.eus/files/galeria/files/85965775807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://h1t-urlaurora1-turbo.com/contents/files/62674233757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karthikeyanjayaram.in/userfiles/file/mufuminebeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariaalbese.eu/userfiles/files/livabutiwanin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tvoirostov.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/99041903258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mrukseo.pl/userfiles/file/dusipobin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://emotionalgift.youngzonejewelry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40007654867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://konteshamamotu.com/userfiles/file/75855594399.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haisushitogo.com/uploads/files/ranavever.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monticellotownship.org/userfiles/file/xorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://manage3.realtourvision.com/rtv/ckfinder/userfiles/images/files/48381329518.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xtremefitness.com.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kujaxivibikidatumapub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thibiditrading.com/public/userupload/files/13130882594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigen12.com/userfiles/file/kokulamefusexen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.argentum.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/18mck2nqv356fs44207jrgfg6c/forisiposorawiranofaweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungdvmklima.com/upload/ckfinder/files/8698575079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quimis.net/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zexoxemadasawuwejomabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://carsen.sk/editor_uploads/system/files/nukuvixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volker-issmer.de/userfiles/file/64642115499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.mppoa.cloudlinesystems.com/assets/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4816765399.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_off0000dfa1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA1 17204 bytes
SHA-256: 84cb191af7656e40439c94f486c8507122e72528a8aa4ffc735ef73c256dbec7
font_01_sfnt_off00010c4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C4D 10344 bytes
SHA-256: f30ea1efc7ed24d3c00fb9e29f80fc245d26c686d6761b74884f8c2fe1e5dcea
font_02_sfnt_off00012399.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12399 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1