Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4575f0bb560306a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2021-04-18 17:49:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-29
MD5: d21283780e3db5df7b1a4fcb6bc77118 SHA-1: 228de3ff24ab4000a711046fea1465d1e093e0e1 SHA-256: a4575f0bb560306a8b09fa94bd3eb78387f4cdd9bd9e62b002c298c17f83d6f2
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs suggest it is designed to direct users to external resources, potentially for exploitation or further phishing. The presence of numerous links to potentially compromised websites indicates a broad phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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://www.guninetwork.org/system/files/webform/heirri_proposals/dagen.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://cicatsalud.com/html/sites/default/files/webform/99284441703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oaklandchildcare.org/sites/default/files/webform/zomosazufexebale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.grotekeukens.be/sites/default/files/webform/gmawards2018/98751459569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pilgrimland.com/sites/default/files/webform/resume-uploads/jokefogebefuzifuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.uts.cw/sites/default/files/webform/xewaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ambrose.edu/sites/default/files/webform/42416127327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.jts.org.jo/sites/default/files/webform/76938035167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pbttphtk.gov.my/sites/default/files/webform/88462653206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pacificsportfraservalley.com/sites/default/files/webform/12938533755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sumnercountyhospital.org/sites/default/files/webform/72664382884.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.friendlycc.com/sites/default/files/webform/29579557159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.birdlifebotswana.org.bw/sites/default/files/webform/sightings-sketches/beporu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/3CAf4wW3hvY/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+change+battery+in+cordless+phonePDF link annotation
    • https://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/sites/www.ice.cam.ac.uk/files/webform/17420147243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/resumes/68382108709.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF39 5632 bytes
SHA-256: d8ad93c541d8a6f9ff22cefb8cd6c4e3e7046b902813ee95464327e661c2f6ba
font_01_sfnt_off0000e269.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE269 10612 bytes
SHA-256: 4499555c1c44f0b8ae11966eca2ecec134a28b88c211fd65a2b149aa02b9f9bf

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