Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8790325c99648b15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:47:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: fd2458c874f58ffc84a42c675984be8c SHA-1: 59d2c617867dcb9d5c80ec387eba5db1d338ba38 SHA-256: 8790325c99648b15443211cf269cc1af2353a2e673c4b802b45dd9bc0c19a483
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of phishing and callback lures. It contains numerous embedded URLs, suggesting it's part of a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate an attempt to exploit users through deceptive content, likely leading to a phishing or malware download scenario.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9935

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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://oniceh.ru/uplcv?utm_term=best+pdf+reader+for+android+2021 PDF link annotation
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/43474036257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autopits-directo.migrupoq.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/31024518796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://escaletravel.com/userfiles/files/detuxigegugamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://naturalfurnish.com/userfiles/file/8107069561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckudzcssffhhj.handysociality.com/upload/files/tiladeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://2015.letnifestiwal.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41505619215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bjerkelunden.org/content/files/userfiles/file///boneporene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuechentreff-schmid.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/lv4hh0vaskqi1v1c3tg4ju445j/62358186867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grandioso.asia/editor_upload_image/file/34484536723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://polimak.pl/userfiles/file/69732127416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cfaegaianascente.pt/portal/userfiles/files/fanokoselogun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiuruvedenlukio.fi/tiedostot/file/13680181990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sec-ollivier-associes.fr/www/upload/file/gipiwuxamodopotutumito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karcannakliyat.com/userfiles/file/52557984996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lensprovn.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wagififufobadafusitififi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lightofislamonair.org/uploads/files/55588503940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://suncitygroup.ir/basefile/suncitygroupir/files/gexakaxupuweponokofefap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://armenia4d.com/contents/files/99220131125.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sofahatinh.com/upload/files/wowezaxedamutefaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asu78.ru/userfiles/file/jupojesopawobivafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amwordpress.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139be0d8ab9c---begalomunixupubif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-ssuances.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/todaxavojexatibaxevaregob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddnepal.com/assets/userfiles/files/xevomawefubagemazasisam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenflameenergy.com/userfiles/file/89335238476.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_off0000f8a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF8A6 17888 bytes
SHA-256: 37dec17089738d448990f320fc3331bb1eddaea08b8dc052324018f02d1ba6a3
font_01_sfnt_off0001279b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1279B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00013fb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FB2 10792 bytes
SHA-256: 2f4176272c9850eba83f5b43a4698ceb2e073463fbdbc642c239790f5a441380