Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d53458b41982ffae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-03-10 21:59:42 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-22
MD5: 3d5cbd3cd4ee3582b8f7415e347ea3e5 SHA-1: 7307e0e906bff6a4e28c3f391ccbe4d19c7d4683 SHA-256: d53458b41982ffae692d351d1454ecffbe50fa458032f980adc5afeeebbac6a7
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and presents a deceptive download button. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://jottigo.ru/123?utm_term=nsfas+application+form+2019+pdf++unisa PDF link annotation
    • http://zonipig.iblogger.org/where_does_chrome_store_bookmarks_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rotixumuzu.22web.org/caracteristicas_de_las_referencias_bibliograficas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/litojavu/dtCpjaE/jumanji_epic_run_game_online_play.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vikusegapaf.22web.org/gerd_treatment_guidelines_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xelapelumu.iblogger.org/android_studio_splash_screen_generator.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kataregulu/6hjj7gi/33415525363.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wodabakope/hiaCO43/toriwurewigozogakekijix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tatajosak.22web.org/creo_parametric_2._0_assembly_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sifalavuxozo/ihicBdj/zuvusanuvuxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fibawejifuma.22web.org/us_steel_imports.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/03c70551-42c9-4830-84bc-855dca950eab/le_petit_prince_english_sparknotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zabidogadifosis.rf.gd/biddeford_heated_blanket_controller_how_to_use.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lovomijelun/digofaniruje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a6406855-aa27-404e-91d7-de0597940671/t-_rex_chrome_dino_game_hack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kijuteno.rf.gd/how_to_learn_english_language_at_home_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://42190e62-4dca-482d-a077-ae7b222d7779.filesusr.com/ugd/b91392_1ab1500487224b4cba37f8e784f385de.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/983e5ed0-28ac-4a30-adcc-209f9a046ab4/are_vita_spas_good.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0fc0baf9-b884-4fcd-968e-f93c0f938930.filesusr.com/ugd/68ec51_1be28f40014f40ad8b4b9e86d1f7ac90.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c2bc7a71-cb21-434c-84f6-8d2fc09ed56d.filesusr.com/ugd/03ae60_40e6315f813245a9b8d50d1a41d1ab12.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/298258ac-8164-4f41-81e5-2ae28ae379c8/are_snapper_lawn_mowers_good.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6fb7e910-3285-4279-a85b-79efd347301e/fupolozigas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fonibinaraj/quickbook_invoice_template.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d41b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD41B 5752 bytes
SHA-256: cf3dbd5e6e84d71e5ed2bea26d0eec2b7aa3a364241dd696042ea0ea022ca1a6
font_01_sfnt_off0000e7a3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7A3 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 9c7dceae99122188a3f42bcdfce8fb995c0e0d66db16436dd59899b62197b716