Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc08dc2bab7a504c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-15 21:37:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 419f641511292f0de6a11659e7123faa SHA-1: b1fd7d976823c5b739015e5705ed4a86e5dc35f7 SHA-256: cc08dc2bab7a504c321b8c5dee3a6aa532850f82339a0463770ed40b4dc19306
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, including those on disposable hosting and employing UTM parameters, suggests a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further supports a phishing pretext, likely aiming to trick users into calling a fraudulent number.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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://drafthe.ru/uplcv?utm_term=c%23+convert+excel+to+pdf+without+office PDF link annotation
    • http://dogalakustik.com/depo/sayfaresim/file/40279735811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://huynhgiabaohotel.com/uploads/FCK/file/rixujekenedadaxutaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nyitotthetvege.kastelyszallodak.hu/userfiles/files/54103010299.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tri-or.fr/tri-or/ckfinder/userfilesfiles/10277390067.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.catalogodecineargentino.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132d785e8855---zetonepofazijizafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nnkcreations.com/userfiles/file/jazuwodesidexetajezaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kronospan-mofa.hu/editor_up/medobefosewelajuxuzup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stancijanegrin.com/userfiles/file/67492288664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://udachi.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ui1t1bq3cjopmmqcek1hu3ho7n/93176305453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skogsformedling.se/bilder_umeny/File/93714363095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nzozkrowodrza.pl/uploads/editor/file/wavigexutabusolaxolavexos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/3072833133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vendax.ro/files/file/delekalagifojevewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/xobujapevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jasfec.com/imgs/uploads/98261934654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alrabbancapital.com/file/files/vusarejulosapoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cutyoursupport.com/userfiles/file/42079384855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cplastik.net/data/cms/file/mumigenujusirepinuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://louisefarmersmith.com/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vofapexotekovexosaxafurid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://himalayanespresso.com/espresso_ckfinder/userfiles/files/sojugofekenex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbigniewrodak.pl/galeria/file/mixugukemalipazewixepavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haiannweb.com/uploads/files/jepisejagux.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_off0000de7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE7B 18096 bytes
SHA-256: eec9da2db9689611e14ae27c5cbfe00711ef1fb4ef0bb0f4b1ddaa704d20d909
font_01_sfnt_off00010e12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E12 9104 bytes
SHA-256: fe4a9ad32d6d12da45ce8861a1e6e511df5579fd33367a5c4d1c9e774d301804
font_02_sfnt_off000120e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120E3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1