Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb151d575ef2efe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-09-20 09:35:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 13d45fa1b31c5ffb01d68a4af605fde1 SHA-1: 4b7036b13eef1d9d2bbd8b0516c2731bdabbca20 SHA-256: cdb151d575ef2efea9021941f2dcf9b99801d6fa72bf5fd400f9b834278ee52e
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing scam by presenting a lure to call a phone number. The PDF contains numerous external URIs, many of which point to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to host malicious content or redirect users. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings indicate malicious intent, likely involving social engineering to trick the user into a fraudulent interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=mood+messenger+ios PDF link annotation
    • https://tahuacoop.com/cms_gpadmin2015/sgi_userfiles/userfiles/files/xujowogotivupapodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.tifdip.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a1ae21cc31---vukakiwijadoferiwewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eternoohydro.com/d/files/monidikolifipigejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ijmscr.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/retotuxijugogiladim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hometextiles-consultant.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bibobuzobazuvuxodevabof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecoaga.com/documentos/file/84157562243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://novsport.com/content/File/45723517742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.examnotice.in/uploads/files/42158484625.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.injamal.es/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/molonixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daming-school.com/userfiles/file/xugijilajafofuruxakutaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villacappuccina.com/userfiles/files/wozarixaxevebefugofufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://putzlappenborner.at/editor_up/simopobibedizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rajatotogroup1.com/contents/files/35301569482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://circolosilverblufitnessclub.eu/userfiles/files/gexevaruxibedozifaduluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.tlo.ntou.edu.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/51950570729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://centreforeffectivecoaching.com/media/file/51318815757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napiarsaigh.com/images/muwobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shtaket46.ru/page_edit/_samples/userfiles/files/70717464928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://linhngapt.vn/upload/files/xonedikumuxoxulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.quatainvestimentos.com.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16147483f66ba1---15071479917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://turasmobilya.com/img/editor/image/file/78789963978.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://crcnueva.naturasoftware.com/uploads/images/files/mofawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vhktn.at/images/content/files/dewizu.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_off0000df4f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF4F 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 2dd0d36e5788f5e6e35298fa82f7c26af1c64c8f397cf057e6a90d7e7589b64d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f626.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF626 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010e38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E38 17756 bytes
SHA-256: 63de44b100ed738eb508273230a7b15079a8295ba65fb9f0a50977e8e97dc70c