Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a90f4afe869d3f80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.5 KB Created: 2021-09-25 23:00:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 30ba45f9957ccd735a7a19baf7b8ebc4 SHA-1: ed84b840dd9ad79c7ea189c4f3ae1f129968927f SHA-256: a90f4afe869d3f80cddd2b046841548c296b61aa037ae364be256cbccd724be3
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing or tech-support scam. It contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, suggesting it is designed to exploit vulnerabilities or redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' strongly indicates a social engineering attempt to trick the user into making a phone call.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://tempatpasang.com/contents/files/lafazasanu.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ore-processing.ru/d/files/82832179124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scouttautomotive.com/editor_uploads/system/files/lawawinemuzumifumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sealand-pptc.com/userfiles/file/1703122930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afritransport.com/app/webroot/files/file/setitagapele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://uk-finansist.ru/userfiles/file/newepubujilonasavebate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://talenthunt.biz/userfiles/file/jetelijusufutometodege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://imad0c0.com/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97728330404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cableesmaltado.com/d/files/87156141279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thietbianninh188.com/uploads/files/44924454897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/776221578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0286869143.com/editor_images/files/68624025578.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alzubidi.com/userfiles/files/94727383860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ukmriptek.org/codeIgniter-hmvc/userfiles/files/433857978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://php-lounge.de/userfiles/file/1526560041.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ourpreferred.com/userfiles/files/bupewunugovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fc-junajted.com/upload/datoteke/70279236589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sensiblemachines.com/ckfinder/core/connector/php/files/39747946098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quesnelbusinessnetwork.ca/userfiles/file/171556319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ouhkpthaa.org/userfiles/9807622082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ciatic.saintelserver.com/archivos_editor/file/jewozopesixupajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=the+world%27s+hardest+game+onlinePDF 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_off0000aec6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c6dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6DD 10780 bytes
SHA-256: 5cd959f428a0df452d667f491a40e9693fb19eaeaa307c85b8742f716fdca777
font_02_sfnt_off0000df63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF63 14696 bytes
SHA-256: 27c98213a6b6adf574c7376c8d81daadad701c8893221847b5d35092a4ada514