Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 63b3b6e91982d018…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB Created: 2021-10-04 21:06:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 4be0b9054327ff2f46aeab3f90ac9582 SHA-1: 93f31e2b625a9e9746d6a0f7e19d566cc99e6181 SHA-256: 63b3b6e91982d018c68f4c2fe2af8e4fdf9e01115a93aef630c67d4f9670973f
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, indicating a phishing or trojan distribution attempt. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to suspicious domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics like 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' and 'SE_QR_LURE' further supports a malicious intent to deceive the user into visiting external, potentially harmful, content.

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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 http://aktasmatbaacilik.com/resimlerfiles/66606665852.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://colleges-in-tamilnadu.com/FCKeditor/userfiles/file/27100148249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gr-chem.com/upload/files/tiwegedowunomafoxerabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevtsov-art.com/uploads/files/96824551586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://steammining.com/userfiles/file/gijavumavidaratilunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mcserpenti.com/userfiles/file/lovabulukudunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://perfecthospital.org/FCKeditor/file/nikobepegijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sokole-tps.pl/userfiles/file/4673786013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bloomx.com/sites/all/sites/bloomx.com/files/14381728955.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vertex-decor.com/userfiles/file/23753551924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suksesunited.com/contents/files/33422503549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ghalemdi.com/userfiles/file/liwakesomalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saktigroup.in/uploads/38585148028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://americansemitruckparts.com/d/files/86634789106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lynxitservices.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jakuwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teplo76.ru/uploads/file/rogokarerokadasumula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bertrandetgastineaudesigners.fr/userfiles/file/lupozetupekezokizevebotoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esistore.com/userfiles/file/temixakujusofomifak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shippingengineering.com/files/ckeditorothers/sirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cleaner.pl/userfiles/file/ruwoduvusapuporatesa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slbreakingnews.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/90921815010.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.amedna.com/userfiles/files/46165935706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/A3Ryygt5BCM/uplcv?utm_term=grow+olive+tree+from+cuttingPDF 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_off0000fe42.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE42 18832 bytes
SHA-256: 1573f8159d4691c3f6ee28a6daa5bd77eb24fd44c6db6f550f536c9e6fd22c09
font_01_sfnt_off00012f64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F64 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 7413eb2a926d9dced2d500dead13661e5a21ed0378173bf0f66382c2fdb1ed5b
font_02_sfnt_off000147d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x147D1 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1