Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e24c9afd3fb4e9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-07 04:33:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 59d7f32361e669c4ee9bfcd34aaf810c SHA-1: 0afdcdfd0a37b1e5baee4651fcf9947d1cf3402c SHA-256: 8e24c9afd3fb4e9b6efaefe3acbce79c9877ae831ddcba727f4a2952310963a7
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic specifically points to a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, where the document likely prompts the user to call a number for a fabricated issue. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs suggests a phishing or redirection attempt. The document's content, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs and metadata consistent with this type of social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=why+can%2527t+i+watch+call+me+by+your+name+on+netflix PDF link annotation
    • https://xokosawebajufad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776850/31a0a6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydraruzxpnew4af.exchange/which_harry_potter_book_took_the_longest_to_writet8ule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pedagodogiko.getenjoyment.net/gekimazofegotudixumozep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vobigivu.22web.org/how_to_replace_water_filter_door_on_whirlpool_refrigerator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://barajofa.mywebcommunity.org/2166884215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fasuxelatiz.iblogger.org/how_does_daoism_differ_from_marxism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vigajinid.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889024/0d8cebbfc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://originalhallyu.com/art_and_the_bible_francis_schaeffer2s4e8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jifofavara.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631997/2365806.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoppingyxplus.xyz/pedifomexopisal82mpm.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zamamuxito.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234866/8055447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://takipleskazan.org/salexejud4640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zomuzigo/pop_warner_scholar_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zunepesojiwer.rf.gd/bidesiya_bhojpuri_movie_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c094c8b0-42c3-43af-8972-51a5ab1aa63c/derechos_humanos_en_mxico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xetasif/tinaxipurosapebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zemunomipazikez/37921104807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dowomux.rf.gd/luxuloronobavixekefotezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/cfe052f8-a641-4091-a423-f4fd2c7be40d/how_to_fix_ac_leaking_water_inside.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurunetotej.rf.gd/telcor_billing_information_system.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_off0000f4d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4D9 5392 bytes
SHA-256: d79c204fee87ca1d283deab994f5b212561025183af9dbf9346f0799c84d7c35
font_01_sfnt_off00010736.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10736 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 64f333e9f0af6fe2feeab5eb3e44aa3991b4a341df75dd23c4dcd7c0f219c51a