Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a8b53c0af53e834…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:52:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 46b6f462d689c68ff4a7e83a8104cbc3 SHA-1: e4554dedefd0fb155531a6d04ff56198466be811 SHA-256: 9a8b53c0af53e834a3d7d51c53f2d2495246388c902268e42f3bc396a3c7cd8d
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic suggests the document is designed to trick users into calling a fraudulent number, consistent with phishing or tech-support scams. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a malicious document, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment, that may exploit vulnerabilities for client execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9973

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gps+easy+para+android+gratis PDF link annotation
    • http://thebrownbag.vn/upload/files/visiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiocalcinoni.com/userfiles/files/45842328144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butterfly-propertymanagement.com/userfiles/file/kekupovuganonezuvupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://adimhukuk.com/resimler/files/48320438187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lwim-ouargla.dz/ar/files/bowofidomon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fliesen-brill.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1612eb8a4d6476---mosirozezixejet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://newshieldinsurance.com/demo/gsa/final/images/file/vevogoferavezamuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rayocazar.com/images/elfinder-1.1/files/file/gipijubuvirisojemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aibasylhet.edu.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rexifesisi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nhatnguyen.vn/media/ftp/file/gavejedoveposelafafage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tobywells.org/media/fckdir/file/9157123389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malovanesklomh.cz/images/file/9692217612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osteriadelcampanile.com/userfiles/files/telopulomotajefopep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sualpturizm.com/userfiles/file/vawelezekiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.weldcor.ca/public/ckfinder/userfiles/files/53803807848.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ultraljud.nu/bild/files/taxezomesekip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.icodar.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161378091982ee---fipomugodifulad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://clickbox.ro/images/file/solobixujusagije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://preprod.app-nomads.com/ugecam/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/73766985019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3sdent.com/upload/files/72806280186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gtlfuelmarine.com/userfiles/file/mimaribigipezum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://haidangpc.com/contents/files/53592089358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duszek-lasu.pl/userfiles/file/dogos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autonoleggioassereto.com/file/sadenosejunuxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.cdsale.org.au/application/third_party/ckfinder/userfiles/files/68368951736.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_off0000f2ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2BA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00010acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ACC 18884 bytes
SHA-256: 7a984921e4c06975745b02a99cb6dd76f446369f09cfa91afdc83359ce262ed4
font_02_sfnt_off00013c57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C57 10672 bytes
SHA-256: ece0cb3fe879bef1c48da9b7fb47ad0ddd48d9f67350e203fafcb86c156ca44a