Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca9a9adfaf033ae5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.9 KB Created: 2021-03-14 20:31:14 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: e182bc6ab19314d9c518b914c3048473 SHA-1: 740331e1d8f8393493c563716afd21e30bc8ef4c SHA-256: ca9a9adfaf033ae5943aea5d79b077704aef74721fbc3837d1fc52de146fd6ab
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing or trojan. The presence of numerous external URIs, many hosted on disposable domains, and the heuristic indicating a link farm, strongly suggests a phishing or scam attempt. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further supports this by identifying a pattern consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scams, where users are prompted to call a number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9994

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://xezojetit.ru/award?keyword=light+brigade+poem+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lanamixese/HiQjjNR/bank_of_america_mobile_banking_app_store.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bitomasijelo/BhhJhgv/ludeguxadajiwepadozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jajugodi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134902248/cc53b06be5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4376120/normal_60274c718a922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xefopuro.mypressonline.com/motorola_verve_buds_110_price_in_pakistan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rolapisi.scienceontheweb.net/diablo_3_season_22.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://riwivuzis.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134265818/482025.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4486033/normal_5ffa1a517488a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/larivowap/eoFS8hh/cebu_airport_departure_information.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rifusofuwedi/pvIQXid/combat_assault_shooter_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sizuxofutitarax.mypressonline.com/when_is_one_punch_man_season_3_going_to_come_out.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bijixaxiferagew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740480/dunukalajudin_buzus_sokapumive_mefixoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4380528/normal_5ffd6f4fa8630.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bebiwamulanu/e3HAzhg/13331056133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4496216/normal_5fccfe02395c6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367959/normal_6012356b555a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jozipuvuwuzaj.mywebcommunity.org/air_force_academy_application_status.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/poresi/gavowolerupagafejedep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vipujaxetixise.epizy.com/congo_band_music_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fotojipifuzitul/long_staple_cotton_sheet_sets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xelimewat/15153959045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zemigiduwagafu/59339215214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotuziput.epizy.com/guided_notes_arithmetic_and_geometric_sequences.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xotepugiz.rf.gd/dnrpa_digesto_titulo_2.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000141f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x141F3 5324 bytes
SHA-256: a00fcc945ee48e103b3e504e142163455a4e7e0c7d0696da96a82e8f14802558
font_01_sfnt_off000153e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153E9 11376 bytes
SHA-256: a51f5a940460bf00cdd387a38357d00044d50bffbef5a02d175c0a1ef96ae63a