Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9746f1232bf760a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-09-15 15:36:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 02be4bc40faae176b71db83351df2c37 SHA-1: 7332d2dac71bae94c52e97bfa6dc0c5eaf05a6ff SHA-256: 9746f1232bf760a0767bc9eef880790b7b6588112cf0d467151d3ac20b5104a5
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with one specifically pointing to a link farm designed to redirect users. The 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates a pattern of using disposable hosting for link farms, and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests a potential phishing or scam context. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself likely facilitates the redirection to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://allytemp.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+buy+more+than+800+robux+on+ipad PDF link annotation
    • https://brihat-group.com/assets/userfiles/files/damijav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://calson.garment-pro.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jebamigesabidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.stadion-zarya.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/42207239272.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dtd.com.pk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jowozepox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giraffeng.net/infodaily/gen-ckfinder/userfiles/files/teliro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stfurnimart.com/file_media/file_image/file/22956127516.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://titishop.co/upload/files/12310690826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jaegeraviation.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37787321704.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marljivo.hr/UserFiles/files/29104969757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sushiyaslo.com/uploads/files/bufopijedesetado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://drsuthichai.com/userfiles/files/pujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://factblogs.com/uploaded_files/userfiles/files/letetikikejabenix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goodfortune.hk/UpLoadFile/file///jelifise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ahreco.com/uploads/news_file/migixipizawunotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellissi.org/userfiles/files/gunutexuwerupatoradi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shinserviceodi.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/edf0e8ab63b90bf2e86e60d4d3d89507/vawadokosolixitigokenit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelly-design.ru/upload/files/8061806632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tailormade-sales-marketing.com/userfiles/file/65823132400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faisaltowel.com/survey/userfiles/files/fexol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yjccnc.com/upload/files/28411806152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samsungklimamodelleri.com/upload/ckfinder/files/79482132613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lederstuehle-shop.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67302735956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/85525492830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nam.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612ea96b9a13e---faporivekewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellev.fr/upload/files/zoliliwoguvazawob.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_off0000d659.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD659 16776 bytes
SHA-256: 4d963caa5e4f09d2de456f212fb6c1fda2582ac33c75c19b4623e63797e4b34d
font_01_sfnt_off0001012c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1012C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011943.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11943 11304 bytes
SHA-256: a6cbacc17c9e786768dcc59220e72c0eb4f5c18d908764f4ff52d4ff6fd808b5