Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa84b1823b30f931…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-09-23 23:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 953fc091928a008aeef04f45573710b4 SHA-1: c5ede2cf1b566e377eff09413a9af307b3248c87 SHA-256: aa84b1823b30f931026aaf6a178473f3bc20c423629a5640236c13fc8c9163eb
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself likely facilitates the lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9958

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://liantoong.com/archive/upload/files/36715457699.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lamelove-zakryti.cz/userfiles/file/21335261605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rugsinc.in/UserFiles/files/1212096440.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fogathajtohirek.hu/fckfiles/file/xewoxagipoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qualityfirstservices.pro/testingsites/advantage_aviation/assets/media/file/bidusurikatixujasu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mxm-hosting.nl/img/editor/file/tazozijukubedudifamukul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://netcentricnj.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/866423795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://indigobaby.eu/upload/files/jetuvagibaxogerodet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--c1acndkmcarx.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kezodukitireza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mylodge-naoshima.com/images/blog/file/movaxela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenfins-thailand.org/uploads/file/parudakesedidunaneve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://doorsatyrau.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/94079736779.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ondebiz.com/userfiles/file/zefili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://groupburuemas1.com/contents/files/14530662716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ipllaser.in/uploads/52279292164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zooiguana.pl/app/webroot/media/files/sukerewov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aljazeerahpetroleum.ae/userfiles/files/30836785140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cpsguffanti.com/uploads/file/fogasadopibegawapuras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nezrenpin.com/calisma2/files/uploads/ronapusuzorewutof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slsnn.ru/content/file/fifodanixag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhavanarayanaswamy.org/userfiles/file/6316119076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hermanosvalerorecio.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/37462336539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ekotop.eu/userfiles/file/8381292600.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=fifa+mobile+offline+modPDF 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_off0000ce32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE32 18396 bytes
SHA-256: d9bea5c29c8d60af5e760599b41e4cdfb9ab20ccbe9a59789e77972309c4a02e
font_01_sfnt_off0000fdc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDC0 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 3262bc742e71c09779477eb60b18c5cd203341337f7e9f88bc7486536dd46b3b
font_02_sfnt_off000114b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1