Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d199f9827fec4423…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.0 KB Created: 2021-09-12 11:43:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 1bdb329f4bfb536d5883930f02d77740 SHA-1: 46801f3efccaaa80d8665c1e80d284dd42edf0d1 SHA-256: d199f9827fec4423d6fbaf03314b62ed2685fc5e0af8f66ab7abe78a53fe2d8d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating embedded JavaScript and a link farm structure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded JS and numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic further indicates a potential phishing or scam pretext.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://nitm.ac.in/nitmeghalaya/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3660954883.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.frank-diagn.hu/userfiles/files/88855022181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sauminandy.com/fckimages/file/jovojonoweduxeni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aporpeter.ro/userfiles/file/wotevajuginobafavufuvidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.jacenter.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mixewopikigujelog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olgapolyakova.com/files/files/pidekegefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viral-list-machine.com/ckfinder/userfiles/publics/files/87608109251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://industrialsupplies.pk/userfiles/files/vogozinab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://amidoux-peintures.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/33849979014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsrmedia.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16135c56dd6887---lefabosixuloromak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://frontiermyanmar.com/sites/all/libraries/ckfinder/userfiles/files/74531667792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.nobleorthodontic.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08644a7b8c4235d331e88aebe7484012/65551506273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tessuno.com/upload/files/6131b9ce9f6d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bazab.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/4630566712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.iuoelocal870.com/kaizen/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bafezulazilobulixekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vom-ragnaroek.de/uploads/file/75956216703.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://massimobertoarchitetto.com/userfiles/files/45209807900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--zb0bw3kv4s8mn.com/upload/fckeditor/file/91630955369.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://olterus.net/contents/files/11561157036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asupuro.com/upload/save_image/files/napojuzasidumisuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://qbcar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69798947487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ser-buk.com/userfiles/file/kasoxanufub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://floridainvestment.cz/files/file/83776978865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=general+physics+101+pdfPDF 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_off0000d551.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD551 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 2d8ad885f7052ac498b6545339ea78961ddee7693b6bcf108aaa3b6093b225d9
font_01_sfnt_off0001016d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1016D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011984.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11984 10828 bytes
SHA-256: 497c47db7aa8422613c82b7ab0f351b90e0a9f245b2021196e1c299d7e02517c