Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cf56fd632a05767…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.4 KB Created: 2021-05-24 14:19:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: a0af11445174915e2e670933eb09baac SHA-1: c5a5a55298c889b6e4c80a73f55f40924cde0b12 SHA-256: 6cf56fd632a0576759aef2b7df4056aa2aad135676043bc53c2b0ae8a87137a1
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document exhibits characteristics of a phishing or scam campaign, as indicated by the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic and the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to dispute letters, suggesting a pretext for the scam. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a lure to a malicious website or to initiate a callback scam.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+i+write+a+dispute+letter+to+equifax PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4425484/normal_600bfe3c8d814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degulula.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070998/latupopugafuribedume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zamosokajuzosa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134651904/6446149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fefugenaxidoseb.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380158/83b7d9d0b7cda05.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4445337/normal_6038e6624a3bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445869/normal_5ff709ee005ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mogefitinovodug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969954/fezibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zikowipon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135300096/1110739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rafogemi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134754229/1721510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofedexakupular.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134317333/lakefipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sogitinavebifi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/4/135400198/b008bfc116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476580/normal_5fd3886738c56.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vurerabekude.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493837/9009425.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://buzoraxuv.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134366179/werebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485440/normal_5fe1ed1b9473b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gofupadosu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134853885/nusexeru-junebomid-lavufit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pibofarijefi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134648305/4378e842e727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kazowajobizitat.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/rumusunobakew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/df63dc20-6e24-4f76-b5a5-17ba77b12108/22024830828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jadudusujuje/film_buddies_in_india_sub_indonesia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bakoloj/banner_background_wallpapers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bupesejirijejus/who_manufactures_kobalt_table_saw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/48b7b5f2-0f8b-4ea9-a390-2f4928ad80c6/calculate_the_margin_of_safety_of_expressed_in_units.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ab367073-b76b-4bbc-9f14-63c20cd73df3/viketabibebimus.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010a2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A2D 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 302347b2cea154417c07c332320fdf81bb2f0f94a6d294ca40fced0b9b27c701
font_01_sfnt_off00011b8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B8A 11360 bytes
SHA-256: 7e5807d7137229b25a89aed1e31801bb46a98ac1a1d3ef7066bc93631ea4cc08
font_02_sfnt_off0001420b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1420B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2