Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1ca3e0b573c500…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 04:33:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: de2aaf43c30171b932b7cc07d44ad3f5 SHA-1: 7f6fcfe48f198694e926b127ede17ea3b8e470a7 SHA-256: 9a1ca3e0b573c50068190ddda51e9813c03ab9ba22d99b687316f14518402026
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. It contains numerous links to disposable domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the true destination or host a large number of lures. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristics indicate a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://adacu.org/userfiles/file/20210916105235.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://radekslodkiewicz.pl/files/file/20652080888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gddfboiler.com/uploads/files/37534081963.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biolabsrl.org/userfiles/files/zuteginilanamonovaraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luluscafeonline.com/uploads/files/piretugasegiwom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://indirimlipin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/91266971058.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://syteq-pro.com/userfiles/file/71856998562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zerling.eu/nico/images/files/supuzaviwanap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skolky.info/foto/images/file/ropitimev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioiulianella.it/userfiles/files/repajixinimuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tinhdauvietnam.vn/upload/files/29384913602.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salamino.pl/userfiles/file/40406395424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kidzcastleschool.com/singhania/downloads/file/45669309626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.christinemartin.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16143446a170e1---19477935397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://24x7taazasamachar.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/98092916157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.cenlajobinator.com/siteuploads/editorimg/file/61048646847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mumegram.com/userfiles/file/90923669108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://euinsuti.uniluxgym.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/65608937906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.radanhorse.com/resource/files/85146827305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montagnobozzone.it/userfiles/files/39538180995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bravo-hk.com/userfiles/file/gowovofimadetoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vietrocknet.org/app/webroot/img/files/28939637415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jensbrode.de/files/file/rufivemagenov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=find+a+friend+androidPDF 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_off0000d673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD673 18840 bytes
SHA-256: 0e57031bf657173ed1ed85c6db5ded2f15bf9721769c6a8a3773505ff8805ba7
font_01_sfnt_off00010794.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10794 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011fab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FAB 10012 bytes
SHA-256: 61b55eb1901f876e1d4429ef7f8152e6de6d534f845da428dc14c68efa835223