Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 753a9fa3d93bfa1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.5 KB Created: 2021-09-12 02:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 0404f60853754a649276f5e9f6e85517 SHA-1: da122befd7a1d9935295a4a2443256fcc9fa582d SHA-256: 753a9fa3d93bfa1bed1a2499da1b6a94c75e8d4535230ce8850e6a284f5094f1
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of external URIs and the callback lure heuristic strongly suggest a phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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 http://clubesquilacoma.com/uploads/files/bowefuwibixasoniribakeb.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://liderzy.natura2000.pl/imgturysta/files/82662882940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotween.com/userfiles/file///xelona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://poorclarescork.ie/images/9814678213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zippy-inc.com/app/webroot/userfiles/files/74081268325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.deco-interieure.com/userfiles/file/61437896637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xn--fct5g39pjpo.tw/upload/leakstop/files/1436403008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goldenbaycruisesagent.com/userfiles/file/zevase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prmakeup.com/Image/files/53065107673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asbu.net/uploads/FCK_files/file/30943119512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.farparts.cl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161338d8d89a42---28237408930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rumputhijau.com/contents/files/14442806797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thehedgerowchronicles.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kovejawezexuzurexafosude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abovomedia.hu/_user/file/jabuboworakifewibitej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gymostrov.eu/gymostrov/userfiles/file/86150309314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://windowsplusllc.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tobejezukeposudeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanthailand.com/image/upload/File/bumobiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hcbarrett.com/user_area/file/wabatoru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prefinancovaniehypoteky.sk/res/file/liposekelukorazefiruj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sity-luxe.ru/userfiles/file/misugijapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thamcohoaian.com/webroot/img/files/27116246710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://farmacieitaliane.com/documenti/file/6496915182.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hogozaty.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zewipatasivojusajuzav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=kingroot+no+root+permission+feature+unavailablePDF 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_off0000dc50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC50 10996 bytes
SHA-256: 6be1b2805e21e051ed6ff4d645368c59d0c7832f3bb42f635f457a898283499a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f5a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5A9 19240 bytes
SHA-256: 56c7ff9a564cdea1fef3dbdc54b472adcba8b6f8c3e3ce8baa28fce6549b2eb9
font_02_sfnt_off000127f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127F5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1