Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf369df60a65b85b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-09-13 05:00:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 1870b4d5c0aafb2df38e07280571adaf SHA-1: cd1ec8f81e4de79fc5a7d5e0fd9d2454c909e9ed SHA-256: bf369df60a65b85bd81a95180336d608ff4becb16e78a0ca38926bee5193e6d0
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure. Although no scripts were extracted, the document's structure and embedded URLs suggest it is designed to direct users to potentially malicious sites or engage them in fraudulent phone calls. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, indicates a broad phishing or redirection campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9953

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://vouchertiket.com/airplane/ckeditor/uploads/files/34124248221.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://entrackintl.com/uploads/sesasoxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ises.ca/phpsites/vertical_living/uploads/file/61156750948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mid-europe-ex.com/images/blog/file/31733775007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recko.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88281690108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://begemot-rus.com/uploadfiles/file/2021091309562473499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tko.wavedev.net/img/files/files/17323166500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://architetturaurbanistica.it/userfiles/files/12809052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.veslovani-vsb.cz/soubory/file/bemixe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twsl.mingann.info/upload/ckfinder_temp/files/20210903105746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.malagatour.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56026077134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zlato-stribro-investice.com/upload/files/75248540536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schreinerheusi.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613b8e255a2f0---zalipidufizuvag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oresteruggiero.com/userfiles/files/vuwuvopifupuxelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://annabarons.com/files/files/17571542096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://globalroomplus.com/bot/ckfinder/uf/files/14391667734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kim-clark.ru/files/file/25426910956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://furkansigorta.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136e71f5b2cb---44375317928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myucpb.net/userfiles/file/rigipafimifuminaraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://planetamama.ru/files/file/61673913219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://photojet.bg/userfiles/file/wolobuvulubazutubok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fuze-pay.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/88805027566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://subded.org/userfiles/file/71243850549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+sign+out+from+telegram+webPDF 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_off0000c74c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC74C 17700 bytes
SHA-256: 4aad4b9dc31ed8a5c9311a0b72a9e8742a6fd9af5f76e12ff7e38b9489447204
font_01_sfnt_off0000f4be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF4BE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010cd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CD5 10876 bytes
SHA-256: ec4c1d9f08eff833a67d9de31987486244d879a3eed545f3daea8682f2624090