Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98cb3df8db0e0282…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 20:13:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-24
MD5: 9d2e03a167313aab8e633fb77dd8e855 SHA-1: a64f84c80eaae78ee039405c36813b3610c2e1c8 SHA-256: 98cb3df8db0e0282b03373989a11422ec45ab430c8c5c2c7304448c4da85fa88
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm on disposable hosting. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised sites, supports a phishing or scam campaign. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9942

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 http://tiendanatacion.com/noticias/files/sutivepadepojixujavem.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/78726032494.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://marksiegeldds.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5e263a6d47831892abb148e47e298727/xilikovibuloxixigerimefef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myphammonly.com/luutru/files/farekine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dtyxbpzx.com/filespath/files/20210911202339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://szekszardportal.hu/userfiles/file/denufixuzutugopaxila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://media-get.ru/userfiles/files/41611618017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bodykneadstherapy.com.au/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54064736975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shoppingplanet.ro/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kofozefitubulevegidobisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ckmusicdesign.nl/userfiles/file/69457853692.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sintsprev-ms.org.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/92429244644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://skl.deindrukdemo.nl/upload/files/mukujiluvisezivogote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuevocoach.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ed6fb74091da1958b4a9f8952d5d7aaa/55449805157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iraneto.com/basefile/iranetocom/files/49427965002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huzatfokozo.hu/editor_up/88924131158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://istanajp.net/contents/files/femosilutonemetedukato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jullien38.com/ressource/site-image/files/papujamugovoleku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iburgisidimarsala.eu/userfiles/files/kigesifepoxazujewono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://offerseir.com/basefile/offerseircom/files/derepupapiluxifobeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://supermagnum-bg.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109130244338078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://automsystem.com/UploadFile/file/20210909221706341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lsv-wittlage.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73405930459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://escritacontabilidade.net/fotos/news/file/sabev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trlgpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/89546165303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=regarder+des+films+en+lignePDF 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_off0000f3c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3C8 10524 bytes
SHA-256: c001acdaf308a453298d0da9d18b4d9822443e1296656e81e9075e93db3d8511
font_01_sfnt_off00010b6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B6B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001237d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1237D 21700 bytes
SHA-256: d35aad17fb1fc709a298ff9cfedfc02510cdf476a6bddd0ec029292dc81682cb