Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1a970041176d8c6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-09-14 06:24:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-14
MD5: 198b832f09d7d87d20947343ec9408e5 SHA-1: 9fbc5a01fbfcecdc741d96cfcbeef897053cf072 SHA-256: d1a970041176d8c618157d4a685131a9874468b4e8f101ecc4dfcecd5fd56779
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and numerous external URIs, suggesting it's designed to redirect users to malicious sites or download further payloads. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly indicates a callback phishing attempt, where the user is prompted to call a number. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9976

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 http://kaizousha.com/js/upload/files/74573111356.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://donghozibistore.com/luutru/files/xowaxuzuruteledezedazegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://for-rent-leuven.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16133255d52a70---jifuxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garant-fond.ru/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/Images/files/kopafabelibuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sportnazona.bg/f/uploads/files/ridaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mygrind.ie/userfiles/file/wumomasetunaxogap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ventss.ru/userfiles/files/33744819539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silver.jo/ckfinder/blanc/files/jukexitexikibafajopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vibrobreaker.com/files/files/mebixafebasoxixukasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://evpltravel.com/xv_image/file/dubukaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quatangsongvan.com/hinhanh_fckeditor/file/xiwomogasusaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ellenia3.eu/userfiles/files/zotuwuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mangallagn.com/images/file/40671696422.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mazurubezpieczenia.pl/zdjecia/fck/file/xaresivafufig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://questyme.com/userfiles/file/81678974192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sh-ruiyangcpa.com/userfiles/file/2021-9///202197200288954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pontus-sd.eu/uploads/file/72029213450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://saaretravel.ee/images/file/47674590158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mountmedpharmacy.co.za/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613cda17ddc6e---fodonebuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://travel-door.com/userfiles/file/ruxibogibow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aczv.fr/userfiles/file/8856326413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traiteurluc.com/userfiles/file/65039104097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gzwep.com/img/file/20219114119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=speed+post+tracking+number+gujaratPDF 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_off0000c1b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1B8 11348 bytes
SHA-256: f08e0002a4b6582f8155ab8ffec062fcdf0961e3a89af12e6b8bb52c6f1f4034
font_01_sfnt_off0000dbf3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBF3 16296 bytes
SHA-256: aff9c05c4b6a410128afb02945a4d09a11953cd6822421951e472a7da70f3eb2
font_02_sfnt_off00010600.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10600 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1