Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d198eb739853eaff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.4 KB Created: 2021-10-02 13:50:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 89f2ce640fd22fc302c1c0d35dd3d44f SHA-1: 8f5d6079a905befc682ed6cac2c27b6eb092bdbd SHA-256: d198eb739853eaffdd6cb853afc2866cbd40d7cdf41ac98a4e48072e11273db6
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs suggests the document is designed to download and execute further payloads or redirect the user to malicious sites. The heuristic for a 'Callback phishing phone lure' strongly indicates the document's purpose is to trick the user into contacting a malicious entity, likely for financial gain or credential theft.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=high+carb+no+fat+diet PDF link annotation
    • http://happyhanool.com/ckupload/files/woditofexadijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lipfish.no/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142424fbf8f3---timune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lawfirm.vn/MINH/user_files/file/soxevobanizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn----9sbbnbtte4cyg.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sejapenoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://acerocorte.centralcms.cloud/galeria/files/suraviteg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://np-laser.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-24/20210924065326622242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lifeisartfoundation.org/sites/default/files/images/userfiles/file/87869817628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/16871927882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://inprovitcentroamerica.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kupakajurevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eirai.org/editor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tezageg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greenearthgardens.org/userfiles/80398834595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altinay-law.com/images/file/jetipibuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dagmare.de/userfiles/file/26688219112.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mediaskills.rs/files/puwetoworizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://golfvillageonline.com/userfiles/file/mipozibonagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://noithatkuongthinh.com/uploads/files/76596847350.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gpagroup.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1614b7ff84c3b4---wimobapamizaxovopejal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mfcwestenkwartier.nl/beta/userfiles/file/20398918172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perechen-izdaniy.ru/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jeluwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://noxsun.com/jingkelun/userfiles/files/20210911095925.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://china-baby-clothes.com/d/files/kegemumowetewilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cssh.es/img/file/25948492611.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_off0000b38b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB38B 17352 bytes
SHA-256: d15f8befb8217d0485ee6d04ade3c0d49f67c67c0b8459f93bf95e8f45bf74ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000e006.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE006 10672 bytes
SHA-256: 2edf0c793ffb70c3d4b419ab76f7a3d199550e7ad44bb0b1ca3527a551e47941
font_02_sfnt_off0000f832.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF832 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1