Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba46121a7df451e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-09-13 19:00:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: cf0f0a4abe393a6d73626278aa7f6409 SHA-1: ceae19611f5254ddcd572b1edfe61d1488eb9a84 SHA-256: 7ba46121a7df451e03e415ef1b0f8a3fafe240642581839c0a1128a5a2920cb5
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its direct content, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, so the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via embedded links and potentially obfuscated content within the PDF structure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://heuresromantiques.com/upload/files/nexovu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/3921132979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://servauto.fr/img/user/file/59656874071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://blsautomation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xukipukugudomuxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wpscrm.in/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/vidurizadelopowuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://96stone.ru/userfiles/file/42969754963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinical-pain.com/pds/userfiles/files/24848421371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keyday.ru/files/files/90419322450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gowowdeli.com/uploads/files/89743366689.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://matfplayer.com/calisma2/files/uploads/26788704847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalfeedindustry.com/upload/files/35907245269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16138161e58850---gufazokisujetapejigono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altiro.nl/home/tjerk/file/56666850261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhuyscampingcar.fr/images/files/tavulizexejidevowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/jofipavemebazuxesix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://riccaassociati.eu/userfiles/files/zikilug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siciny.pl/userfiles/file/dijomarokijululanixanati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://niestachow.pl/data/aktualnosci_imgs/file/88861214571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4yoga.by/pics/files/34211951909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://koetec.com/home/~ptow/public_html/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasovif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turkuazhost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/75323030642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ap-qatar.com/userfiles/files/87853128444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gamebonda.com/ckupload/files/37994247835.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiogalata.it/userfiles/files/22114594516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://1utilaje.ro/mm/file/gasevokaminifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digireg.nu/upload/mirezapetixepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+add+new+apn+in+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_off0000da7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA7B 17908 bytes
SHA-256: c1ebbcae5751510a0773c88e04686655f06fb764a6abf404848776f25d7a5a80
font_01_sfnt_off00010828.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10828 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001203f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1203F 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 2fbb02b176fa132991c20d29c574824c4619d7db5e3f08ce5776542f56f96d8a