Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa532c03ba755abb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 11:08:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: fa8ba3343106b1c4cde927eebe26d119 SHA-1: 11f5ef8cdd06f59e3ed2e1bd36d9102bb5c0ad51 SHA-256: aa532c03ba755abbec1a797999832dcf287a727848811a299cb4c09b96e7cbf8
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs and is identified as a link farm hosted on disposable domains, indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of callback and QR code lures further suggests a phishing or social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=gaming+vpn+mod+apk PDF link annotation
    • http://ncfc.com.tr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28569623987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.whoamiandwhyamihere.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/28580093808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bisleriwheel.genefied.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xozutenusojezofixuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-aalst.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16130ae4fc0ee6---zukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamedunyasi.com/calisma2/files/uploads/gewadedovonubomiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marklaliberte.com/fckupload/file/vegejijudafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8d90abf0ffb37a2988ea4aa2b77e739e/72021117464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archetipoingegneria.it/userfiles/files/24036628493.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://korzayithalat.com/spot/admin/fckeditor/userfiles/file/lumuzobixateludidewinit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rgcsmt.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77569594688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiosiriosrl.it/userfiles/files/zujeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://em-mould.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50768959937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kuehllawpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/vemerapefimapisunuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://accessiblevehicleservices.com/userfiles/file/sesajitajibotojoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hanyauntuktesting.com/contents/files/vewilanusepof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://85097781.com/upload/files/litodikureropefabikujised.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stphilomenaonline.org/userfiles/file/63251705566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skupka54.ru/upload/m/81889908267.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zhongyuemedia.com/filespath/files/20210905013408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawabed.pl/uploads/userfiles/file/14684769664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asiantms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1058539742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://constantemails.com/userfiles/file/1630835018dovevenofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rudolphi.nu/userfiles/file/tigedemidoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mvmdigital.gr/files/files/zevukunativijamo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chinawin-consult.com/userfiles/24522147439.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_off0000b9a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000d1ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1BA 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 078f9b4000264cd5c31c81f433f74f455d70b05e3f0aa190b21b85f1c64d8fb4
font_02_sfnt_off0000e8f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8F1 15116 bytes
SHA-256: c1bfec64b397405731e97655516f209df67e4bebe9a0bccb3c3080adf898fd1b