Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ecb061b2526aeb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2021-02-09 23:37:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: a39ce00983ff3ecff5e31fad16821a8e SHA-1: 3be6cae3dc5f5e9720aea93559c39846b969283c SHA-256: 8ecb061b2526aeb03ccac2e58d6d73ec58fe8fc7268cb50a5c8d9b4f8b34bb85
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The presence of a 'callback phishing phone lure' heuristic and a 'visual download / call-to-action button lure' further supports a malicious intent to trick users. ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms the malicious nature. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 8

  • 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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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 https://druttle.ru/aws?utm_term=bses+yamuna+new+connection+form+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://losqutoq.online/93808337563teljh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sizafutito/qhahbgf/pubg_live_wallpaper_video_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sutogeva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739298/9770933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optamorem.com/demon_hunter_tanking_guide_7._3navg0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/nomitusibop/dghieij/pac_12_championship_game_2019_attendance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jakufomego/idQgiBM/letterboxd_top_250_horror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://whalesqpa.fun/647192292175psf8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rollernefritmassage.xyz/wunifoxexopexewedivefuraitwz4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mynasert.online/nuke_mod_1._12._2bpcjg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/metusoteliza/A9Ljd9H/laralobigupobadofatifuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topvideo.design/research_methods_in_psychology_3rd_edition_morlinge85k3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/leperanurosi/hfhcY2h/ziwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://expressvpn.store/milotaxolamidizojosirukojldaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jisaside/mghgdhe/76301727209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zodixezujiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135345824/surogavole_mipejazoxo_bubafexuxaxisas_bejokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rodosidebo/lZsT1ib/vevuronatep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jubipolofolexi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302872/0829a94cbb9cc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fusureviweki/ibihqTA/planet_fitness_membership_during_pandemic.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tophomework.space/1469970579712tu6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kpovli.ru/easy_mini_cupcake_recipes_vanillaijyht.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/dotivaf/spider_solitaire_fr_windows_10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jujadodedaruxix/dragonball_dokkan_battle_jp_android.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_off0000dd52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD52 5512 bytes
SHA-256: de2d42653606b4ea678c5711e7b6b7d6e1efaadccb2ce1db2e4bfc9f24ac771a
font_01_sfnt_off0000f01b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF01B 10520 bytes
SHA-256: bd402f614e28fb772c48c04ef7e11ba9ef8cf7b6b442d6f84143d261a153ede6