Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8bd04c601fb43488…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-09-21 04:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 890aa3351320a834c1a66172a826b5a4 SHA-1: fb4791748dbabbaeef46fdde72cea3aa232f3292 SHA-256: 8bd04c601fb434882d36f24d17f710eb0c0b9b978aa1cbbd31cc5f4e18226a90
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document exhibits characteristics of a malicious lure, including a deceptive download button and callback phishing pretext, as indicated by heuristic firings. The presence of numerous external URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable hosting, further supports a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, increasing confidence in this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://studiosaletta.it/userfiles/files/54807017117.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://funbugs.ie/userfiles/file/16094724286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevis.cz/files/file/60159198368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ggmtc.net/userfiles/files/losewavone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aorganboys.handyfriendship.com/upload/files/kuxitepobevafin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://epgeptech.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xoxupatavawovavetupinen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roseeskin.com/userfiles/file/20210916095803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://slezanie.eu/userfiles/file/bebuwegogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simkoongschool.com/uploads/editer/files/dofagaritozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.temtechnologies.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tumepowuvirepuzegufalat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/60080316186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allier.proximeo.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/9955458346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preciz.com/uploads/wysiwyg/files/48598026158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandersorokolaw.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/gisejomazodanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ijestr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/83539708652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://himalayakebab.com/shipinc/userfiles/files/89508779338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osstemcardiotec.com/files/fckeditor/file/131715193861340b6d0e1ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abss.pt/userfiles/file/vimeseximisivijesitumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tjchenxing.com/filespath/files/20210904120658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.revistadefiesta.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613665897c23e---vogewinatebigamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obedovice.cz/userfiles/file/nubasevumeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemxoithanhhang.vn/app/webroot/files/images/pages/files/81316912067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dezsredstvompx.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f4b7e91e190cfb03c5654abfd3ee49a8/jamoginalorode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/22356184814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=avatar+480p+dual+audioPDF 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_off0000dd4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD4E 19256 bytes
SHA-256: 3c308b6b21dd0bcba8431af2dd5c102d0b5a211b4f9686eb0d1badc393a90c1a
font_01_sfnt_off00010f4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F4E 10536 bytes
SHA-256: bf3a4ce991e0661a901cc0344948f2c515fe63b9b4136c485a7947bc9fe101d8
font_02_sfnt_off0001277a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1277A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1