Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f0a9421c675b3f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.8 KB Created: 2021-09-13 03:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 2e7e46efe39b01f4bb06720d56468aec SHA-1: 7290be1000d384b0c44ed592d2f7336b4ba2874d SHA-256: 5f0a9421c675b3f87f6f39afeb61665a9f89d4306d2a05f3f34f2a4ef3e53050
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains embedded JavaScript, which is often used to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. Heuristics indicate it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure, suggesting an attempt to trick users into calling a fraudulent number. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or a trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 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 http://penzionnakrizankach.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14919199114.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://indexone.ru/upload/file/budazufupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eminenceconstruction.ca/viking1/uploads/files/91519620027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shangrilatheshow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57175321752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://castel.ro/userfiles/file/wuwawutavenemoretaziv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmkms.net/upfile_editor/2021/files/fozola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://longruiglass.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210905_142645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yogaschoolofkerala.com/photos/editor/files/suwutugifam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://travelinnsuites.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/77928072201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purevdavaa.mn/uploads/ckfinder/files/87047756520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drnanemilk.com/tctt/sites/aaa/file/rodazinofifeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vakukh.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5ecf4df510660acd7e7678e9a3ebeb89/jisalapoxiweseket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svetplus.com/userfiles/files/32758400049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ldcpc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/84908508070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mmgrowersg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bixekepuwudabikezone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bartuceviri.com/userfiles/file/dinilapeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zkqzl.com/uploadfile/file///2021090722551460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stsmcc.org/www/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12271175767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.majorisinvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161397eb588a6e---kixawububopeguxawitidil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ubranni.com/uploader/files/96684016283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kildevangen.dk/files/26398923415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thibiditrading.com/public/userupload/files/90595849114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://volkshilfe-ktn.at/images/content/files/29950576287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=android+1+buddy+tossPDF link annotation
    • 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_off0000b14d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB14D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC964 10288 bytes
SHA-256: d7c4ac32e6886603ffc5bc4a0d676cee91b7796b64ae94cdf912ee1860048350
font_02_sfnt_off0000e0b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0B7 16188 bytes
SHA-256: 2f8e7dd22ec5a8d8a2b1a0aef392c30ace9cf07e6a82a463d3a1472bbccbcee2