Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8bfe0595feb4191…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.8 KB Created: 2021-09-21 15:59:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: a44c158cbbd6741fb954a7cb21d8de84 SHA-1: 88d1463c2dae74ab57ac9958ac7ee593ff2aaf34 SHA-256: b8bfe0595feb419199a9baecb075cd782b749b4e5cfacca8add6c4f7a237d520
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. Heuristics indicate the PDF acts as a link farm and employs a callback phishing lure, prompting users to call a number for fake issues. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and numerous embedded URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to malicious sites or engage them in social engineering tactics.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9968

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://krisoc.ru/uplcv?utm_term=ios+vs+android+compare+and+contrast+essay PDF link annotation
    • https://gberwanda.com/gbe/useruploads/blogs/files/rosigebosisulobujejodip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://madspot.dk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sozagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tucholainfo.pl/userfiles/file/12033940357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://birotex.rs/images/files/wixepupufugizimudos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bhandarisurgical.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70486055464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sotel-perm.ru/site/file/wegojoralezosatoditujuxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nazragame.com/calisma2/files/uploads/nufezulavalelawabivejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aramlasmerok.hu/uploads/file/jemobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shen-su.eu/gfx/userfiles/files/12413531470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoekidsworld.com/userfiles/file/78670493416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chanhbon.vn/media/ftp/file/wapusewamusunewetiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://themetamorphoseprogram.com/userfiles/file/sulul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nppgursaraijhansi.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/34551969705.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rabwork.com/media/file/50503277736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ngonluathan.vn/images/ckeditor/files/91605978651.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.nagsa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kajigibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://veaodaibrahma.com/uploads/image/files/38035073796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614191c38702a---34539908262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://flashdisplay.net/UploadFiles/FCKeditor/20210903091702.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konditsionery-zheleznodorozhnyi.ru/upload_picture/file/34677971904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zaragozadenoche.es/upload/files/41331438484.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fzsvybbs.at/userfiles/file/pafujor.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_off0000cfdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCFDC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7F3 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 1a2e3815ef5066c6d099315e2dd2c6ecf3786bdc7110b2337a2d5087a48214d7
font_02_sfnt_off000100b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B8 17668 bytes
SHA-256: bf8c665351ac2b67adaba4b5b610a629a862bacc35c9d7463506f93f634196d6