Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c88c658dd85ec47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.0 KB Created: 2020-12-31 09:39:10 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 4b6c70a56e5aaec8f99f0e03a51c42c8 SHA-1: 7a0a250b6395cc8a12aa0f079f4b9895a71f6d36 SHA-256: 5c88c658dd85ec473f6cc25fa360d2851dc5cfd92542686d2a1617825c2838b6
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links pointing to disposable hosting, indicative of a link farm or SEO manipulation. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or redirecting users to harmful content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous external links are consistent with techniques used to distribute malware or facilitate phishing campaigns.

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://trafftec.ru/123?utm_term=safewatch+cellguard+adt+price PDF link annotation
    • https://zeginuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775519/f27743cf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371266/normal_5fbbb6e4b0cc8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sukowaletudevux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874669/wovabaloririx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4464877/normal_5fea3792d9f30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totelulipax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134469391/tugevefega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mofipife/Gjjhh3k/35929352810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403119/normal_5fd171d7951d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4487194/normal_5fc6ddc9b41e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366055/normal_5fed48480cc63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naratejog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682615/mifew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/07ea871b-03cb-4ffe-a9b7-924fb2f474c9/odd_eyes_wing_dragon_tcg_release_date.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f62d790-9100-4ca4-aeb0-5025939d93a3/8676827630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ce043a6d-19ea-4dd2-970c-c3aae3311a09/gusutuvipelatexof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b4566a4f-5220-4f2f-a436-ae9fd943d6cd/16547330777.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d948.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD948 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 1a5be31c225cce6b3696e05fe038698f483636be756e2cba3f133a7997e884f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000ebd4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBD4 11496 bytes
SHA-256: 603644351dbe573d8392f6e7d58511f470f9d777351fc5553a5d739c2b742343

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