Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5c954a315d45f64…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2021-04-02 11:23:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 8399b6aa614f0049f48ad73d4a7ca4b2 SHA-1: f8e346256c5bed209d8b0aeb5d12b43f14e737d0 SHA-256: d5c954a315d45f64d46e9c5d6ec8ef29e8697a514efc6170363dc7398f6ff5bf
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, as malicious and a phishing attempt. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely contains a phone number to trick users into calling, a common tactic in callback phishing scams. The presence of numerous external URIs, many on disposable hosting, further supports the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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://gimoguvi.ru/strik?utm_term=fender+frontman+25r+retail+price PDF link annotation
    • http://gokojun.scienceontheweb.net/can_you_feel_the_love_tonight_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bulixanejad/ifjbihT/28827049612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuzetuzame/WSgcjd4/58060531073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499979/normal_6049ed239ead4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489032/normal_5fcd6d36b17ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/potonefamuve/21bLoji/jefikezirogapanukago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dipunag.getenjoyment.net/nimikaginabiloxemina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podjem2.club/nesepezuvajr25hl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kogujipubap/T9gggcM/3879728298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bebetadiruj.mywebcommunity.org/ssr_125_exhaust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sujabupinoda.scienceontheweb.net/is_twilight_ok_for_a_10_year_old.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/posukomokufi/ichjtie/33641681365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kutajanode/cNia0oO/domino_s_pizza_near_me_open_now.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carinsusa.info/spectrum_math_workbook_grade_8_free92cvz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497687/normal_6053bea0d63da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/natokaze/heiiOgc/avatar_wolf_maker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/dogutadova/Hhg1aid/geometry_wars_galaxies_wii_rom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carbags.site/34836458551497vi.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/4834b3f8-2dee-4f9d-b861-2d20aad49295/46532768167.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/95835a2d-faa9-47c2-87cc-3a68c4a89aa7/rabbit_hole_lyrics_mindy_gledhill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rususekobijo.myartsonline.com/mosfet_differential_amplifier.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e250bc56-2627-402d-951a-5b38cb4bf3b7/bisexis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/893de593-8745-4333-bb4d-85e0818ed2d3/scott_cunningham_causal_inference_mixtape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19d71739-09ec-4fad-b65f-5942e027708f/trutech_universal_remote_control_codes.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_off0001027c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027C 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 02f72c0b9454bf5ec9647234fdc570302af4331b0737eb8f9814bbc42fb6e311
font_01_sfnt_off00011491.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11491 11320 bytes
SHA-256: bfdaaa0f5216302bd57b8848377847223cf9b17bb11aca13bba77f1a74014554