Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87152bd12373abed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.5 KB Created: 2021-05-02 08:41:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 3b5f50a216e196f444b973efd1fd88be SHA-1: c66cb907f99b87c1e47507148537c07e4abdf345 SHA-256: 87152bd12373abed2e0ec2ff5f8fc7ac9545bfd63703fc90bb7ca555eba0fed4
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it's a link farm on disposable hosting and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing attempt designed to trick the user into initiating a phone call. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself likely contains malicious links or redirects.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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) or Microsoft license-boilerplate 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://jumiwimov.ru/strik?utm_term=ti-30xs+multiview+%2528solar%2529+rekenmachine PDF link annotation
    • http://xunetokawetik.sportsontheweb.net/exercicios_alemao_basico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nalivosebek.22web.org/jomit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ronuwimo/g4f04Ax/object_pronouns_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4443819/normal_601100b28bad4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://porupofimumole.22web.org/who_was_vano_in_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxaduva.mypressonline.com/creo_parametric_5._0_tutorial_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xalibolopov/ggXm5je/easy_pay_finance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465024/normal_60230f9b44a63.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476936/normal_606e61833bc45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365539/normal_601c9733752b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393488/normal_60229387457d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pokemazikera/cia5ihg/digital_adoption_platform_comparison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tobetusibu/ehagdgc/zutireseru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sobofikikovir.22web.org/49792481386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kufemotobenin.66ghz.com/kipizirixezugaverobetutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://tubitige.epizy.com/sokijewixijixumosafusow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0f926834-650c-4d5a-b53c-ad60ae412ccc.filesusr.com/ugd/6a44d8_c0259a07237d41229a2aba7fedc7c89b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3c8197b3-f999-4f29-b3da-fbdfea3dbf34.filesusr.com/ugd/0047a4_93ff7ac9d315461e9c8ab49cb0bb0024.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1a73feee-b327-4bc5-ac54-9d367b44a425.filesusr.com/ugd/226baa_7f64c2ca75f34639a434d7d4e357842b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://fitubupit.epizy.com/jibajolivikowugupojopum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://535f918c-e50e-4760-9dbe-4b22a9cc1357.filesusr.com/ugd/65883d_e900924aebac4793868015aa702add0a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dc688580-c0ec-4ade-910b-7abffd870ab4.filesusr.com/ugd/096b61_1ae8d4d7cf3b415fa01352afb47fee98.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://febaxur.epizy.com/future_continuous_tense_quiz_with_answers.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f98d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF98D 5764 bytes
SHA-256: e6c01e4993fd5c0445fa135d301c585b6fa2679ace5bcc19f29715c2c2e8d687
font_01_sfnt_off00010d31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D31 11420 bytes
SHA-256: 7a9f078867e41bb4a996d75a74ff312ad1a0bec5e6d28f7b996963ebf4481413