Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 756e7cdeecf6656b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-09-21 02:56:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: fc3dedd35f27f5b11ff77eb975fa35b9 SHA-1: 152ac74fda969ddb294f742afda3fd86b113e789 SHA-256: 756e7cdeecf6656bbf08d825e53d02066e31c4b7d5076a9e0b730029b7d246c7
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it functions as a link farm and a callback phishing lure. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites or engage them in a social engineering scheme. The presence of multiple PDF links and the callback lure heuristic strongly indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

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://elsa-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/leturoxodisogemirawide.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://www.truck-transport.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/poloson.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://francois-daulte.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40811956090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://azizavacanze.com/userfiles/files/82901641116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://habibitours.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rosexomavuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fetogram.com/images/upload/files/46243328553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anbao.vn/uploads/userfiles/file/67656206388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cplust.com/upload/serback/files/20210916155454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sochisushi.nl/survey/userfiles/files/pojubefodajame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shopgraeagle.com/ckeditor/uploads/files/tikodixazama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ciiinnovationsummit.com/ci/userfiles/files/basurofigevales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://parc-hotel.info/file/gimekomalonuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sireny.net/share/files/barijesukid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bakefruit.com/uploads/files/202109082150095701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiastudy.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/12825167964.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://world-spa-resorts.com/dok/nosesapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alatheir.com/atheirwsfiles/file/80374803379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16146fcb9defe9---62945445937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.booster-p.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ee157de953---93229236497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://belv.ru/userfiles/file/tovovabojadederefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.urbanwaterways.info/files/rukesejudorilebulamojiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/ragozepilaxug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://supermarketdv.ru/files/file/faretal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://springkasteelhuren.be/userfiles/file/75102856954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/Om9ozkHLxGw/uplcv?utm_term=new+english+songs+mp3+downloadPDF 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_off0000b3b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3B9 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 096729a585e48105b69dd1a14fa19c890d9f7c14e786e91a4f8b4476731cdcb9
font_01_sfnt_off0000cc78.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC78 15716 bytes
SHA-256: 15352734d0166ec27f1db1bd102f94c0c3d2d5923754564662fed2d82ccac080
font_02_sfnt_off0000f495.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF495 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1