Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74ced582cdf87871…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.0 KB Created: 2021-09-15 23:25:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0661dfdd2d07bf4b86f8d99ba7bf0d24 SHA-1: ed9a6eaa81cc28456fe2d2307353499055ec428e SHA-256: 74ced582cdf878714ed191ae8c92f52b1e90b1d98ff55f2afbea9ff78888590e
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the user is prompted to call a number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing lure, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://carolinevlieghe.fr/images/file/35382659455.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ziepniekkalns.lv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b3c2d3c087---2516280376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allgeology.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zenobapasepisemijenoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shevian.com/images/file/51134112189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://infosierra.es/images/editor/jexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ocw.tw/uploads/files/38572122202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigaintan.com/contents/files/jobutinuxireki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suriyedostlukdernegi.org/image/files/rajupinilazonubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cariboohose.com/userfiles/file/33852396651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.slappedtogether.com/editoruploadfiles/file/xuxirifunisepixefuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://auxerretv.com/content/public/file/97189201841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yourbuilding.ru/userfiles/files/gasisugas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soosanfix.com/upload/fckeditor/file/81306181983.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lev-steklo.ru/userfiles/file/11714417291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://learnazia.com/fck/imagesfile/52706455692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hkfew.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/79602480393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sweet-sugar.de/images/uploadedimages/file/vimizexelulinanidarirapek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nikolsbeauty.com/webroot/f/uploads/file/dusopodesit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://6nergy.fr/6nergy/sites/default/user/file/vakexuvakilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://everestart.com/images/stories/file/paniwunawixovixokewub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.yoursurveysurveyors.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139f0a05b618---63001148735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cda.org.hk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/96606414547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lescourailleurs.com/upload/editor/file/78022419354.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://komputerzagrosze.pl/userfiles/file/85498938103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldmedglobal.com/userfiles/files/nowagazodupubekit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=alerta+radar+androidPDF 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_off0000dc15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC15 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f42c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF42C 10056 bytes
SHA-256: 2c1885f56b964bee52c4796ff61370ad35689af3b33362a274e700acfa719f55
font_02_sfnt_off00010a98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A98 19772 bytes
SHA-256: 011d0b4afc2d7cd198b4fb2ff9ffbe217b24f3d05b463450ae69a3f235c0a676