Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e46963cfe215adb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.0 KB Created: 2021-09-09 22:57:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 0ebd8a97db1b0b9fc690be4a5e832d0d SHA-1: 17dcf576ffdb9a137e6198058573dbb9de7d37f7 SHA-256: 9e46963cfe215adb7c81a4fef3711410ddebc90c4590f888ed73f979c9785ed7
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the user is prompted to call a number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous external URLs and the nature of the heuristics point towards a phishing or social engineering attack vector, likely exploiting a PDF vulnerability to deliver a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9955

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://irlanc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=haircuts+that+make+your+face+look+slimmer PDF link annotation
    • https://anukulagrotech.com/userfiles/file/bozuzebikedet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.peritaonline.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kuguvarekifopotam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.primalegal.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uqjio8q6sukafs61fe22vausq4/dubasanunavumigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3e-recycling.ru/app/webroot/filesfiles/82091843556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mijn-nederland.nl/userfiles/file/wasawelarituwivap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tw-echen.com/uploads/files/202109060750496451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thuexe7cho.vn/upload/files/tekilat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fsreloading.com/userfiles/files/93105474888.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobiliteit.nu/files/7475044608.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.leesii.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16139eb8d329bf---kawivani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atasuorganiktarim.com/upload/ckfinder/files/28726180817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fueandhair.com/userfiles/files/44615062353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patidarpalanpur.com/web/k/main_admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/40885433594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finadev-groupe.com/userfiles/file/99610366949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dissanna.com/temp/fckeditor/file/nubekegej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ibiza-ferien.de/file/40028313005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://medica-eg.com/userfiles/file/95421780786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egyseg.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gozijaxomibar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://propertiproperty.com/Uploads/userfiles/files/xupuzefikadinija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://trieurodata.ro/images/file/zomukigogawevenupekopuwun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/xugijilajafofuruxakutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protok.pro/upload/files/12767311415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://worldpigment.com/image/upload/File/zanusikipasolije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bankerz.in/qpic/files/kosav.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_off0000e4d1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE4D1 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 408dd2dfcb369ce8838dd292f45e99bc47fdbc7836becfefe96898ba253a96f0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDBE 17876 bytes
SHA-256: 0cec84b26c874303c5ef96971a18465c35d58c58f2197203a66a4491da75865d
font_02_sfnt_off00012a4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A4F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1