Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8362e9a19386fd57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.9 KB Created: 2021-09-22 14:03:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: e47895e4eeb33769e5b7923b3b94f49e SHA-1: 0582d07ecea15e6bd7de57b49d05a47689651f62 SHA-256: 8362e9a19386fd57dbe51ca3c0553dd4e65b87649671d7ef62097bb847f2a46b
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm and employs a callback lure, prompting users to contact a phone number under the guise of a billing or security issue. While no scripts were directly extracted, the presence of external URIs and the overall detection pattern suggest it's designed to lead users to malicious content or initiate further compromise.

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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=learn+java+programming+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://saydersan.com/firma/files/sezilofefumejoxirowukemow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.thic.net/plugin/ce1/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68033535872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonschickenfremont.com/uploads/files/43444614612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pc-driver.ru/userfiles/files/nakujowewezogezoziwuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maychieuvinh.vn/upload/files/subalas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mail-ex.net/userfiles/file/28331348725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/gudosokiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goopenapp.com/uploads/files/fezulipimarapoxid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tagoproperties.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lukidezeraminigagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ballestermultiservicios.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8b4b44ee3---doborixafefasodozub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/92167889065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stiff.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wasijigigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://s8radziejowice-paszkow.pl/userfiles/file/1101164525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webshopplus.nl/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/femifewagupodad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmodels.studio/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161427d501062c---bofolopegekim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christianbelieversmatrimony.com/web/christiansbelieversmatrimony/photos/ckeditor/files/46817138494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qhzs88.com/admin/fckeditor_upfiles/file/2021091403322980554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucsokszekszard.hu/images/news/file/gotawixikomujanidexow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mustwalge.ee/data/content/files/maviwunerekuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jd6618.com/jd6618/file/2021-9/file/LwpCms2021_09_22_18_58_21_4637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haliburtonhighlandsheritage.ca/userfiles/file/xinidagijumogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suativisamsungtaihanoi.net/upload/files/21563181800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taiwangallant.com/uploads/files/202109220142531331.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abzesolar.com/uploads/files/52061869095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31409238876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ikkosushi.com/uploads/files/59885110457.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://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_off0000e089.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE089 17512 bytes
SHA-256: 4c6a2cf20d0befa44f4dbb3ad04cbaa44e15ccca7f4aacb76738cd2929d845e3
font_01_sfnt_off00010e60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E60 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12677 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 747c9eded71b378b5b3ffe714585339bbda50335f33cb02e503ba1ea816782ea