Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d843b4dd6ef39e74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.8 KB Created: 2021-09-12 20:23:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: c185e49c1d186f84c4aa5d720bd39c3f SHA-1: 156741349594809a65d0bce12b40e8ce276afa9b SHA-256: d843b4dd6ef39e74a253e651770cf8d761b0e4a87ef03bdf8be56bc568b6598d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of callback phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but heuristics indicate the presence of embedded JavaScript and a lure to contact a phone number for issues like billing or subscription disputes. The numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially disposable domains, suggest an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

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://ke-sen.com/userfiles/file/1631137491.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://anabakorea.jp/userfiles/file/88020876202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubin2000-distribuitorshop.ro/userfiles/file/lifakorodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.l-games.jp/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/26917720873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yuseigachi.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a7b6ed8ef0---84898678415.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://connectcontrol.net/files/userfiles/files/34062478124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.meditech.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fugosototareweserudumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thebookmarkcafe.com/uploads/files/86136342506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insp.biz/img/file/zemetatamexesaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reversetheclocknow.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/58083651798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atlantidegattico.it/file/bojekunarajefajuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mbjarrahi.com/UploadedFiles/New/file/kipumelidenozepavusekomex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thibiditrading.com/public/userupload/files/81269545760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://avflash.nl/upload/files/xonitikorovum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ffarchitettura.it/userfiles/files/fisugimejosesi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dm288.com/slicice/file/90555206891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khiensa.com/UserFiles/File/80596711544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://anhuishangbiao.com/upload_fck/file/2021-9-7/20210907160304137297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studioagronomoserragiotto.eu/userfiles/files/kanig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yokosohk.com/files/fckfiles/file/65836806675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maychaybocaocap.com/app/webroot/uploads/files/fifolibodobibuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.abandassociates.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rusakugaxetabewosepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lienming-rubber.com/uploads/files/202109111633005767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/3vuEKuznOb8/uplcv?utm_term=note+9+battery+drain+after+updatePDF 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_off0000de85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE85 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f69c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF69C 10776 bytes
SHA-256: f3760af61bcbdd092e879b808a4fa63709d091337e4f9fe0880abc4264eafc2c
font_02_sfnt_off00010f65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F65 17928 bytes
SHA-256: 576ba164dbec82637e25aff76e83ca1712571f036d80ca64505a46eecd908765