Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9cc7a78b6c2e8cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-22 19:59:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 416cdfcfc5b0f14b17506d16da360500 SHA-1: 4606302ff57c58865435a8037401877e613ad09b SHA-256: d9cc7a78b6c2e8cd5965d0ab0408d98bcda8b7d0fc277d8c404786ac4266f78c
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of numerous external URIs, many of which are part of a link farm on disposable hosting, suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the heuristics indicate a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, likely directing users to malicious URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9982

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://huntic.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+twilight+eclipse+full+movie+online+free+123movies PDF link annotation
    • http://victorylimo1.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613809c01f16b---fudasuzasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arnetbilgisayar.com/upload/ckfinder/files/nomenidawos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kalashad.com/userfiles/file/mosaweruxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://probidjp.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210908_205713.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://safedoorsystems.com/cmsimages/file/xosukizegidupobuzafitone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://paglialonga.it/userfiles/files/36977532300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://claphamjunction.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a852f232f9c87e4a7e0fa5cf3925891a/lurefukokos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koslita.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57578510177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://knoxvilleremembers.com/media/tibije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guss-ex.de/uploads/fck/file/8785689256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mimpiindah88.com/contents/files/39334081240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brandorbit.in/userfiles/file/vopir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockhouseschool.com/rockhouse/uploads/files/sulimulopigevek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yer-krasnodar.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/posuvaxajixusedul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://psystat.net/candyticket/uploads/page_images/files/25919608721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wonwon.taipei/photo/file/90889159048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hotel-ambassador-nice.com/upload/files/48096073017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tainghe.vn/userfiles/file/28302835291.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://negaratoto.com/contents/files/68791323334.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tlproduct.com/userfiles/file/luzasupodesosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scuolascifondocortinadolomiti.it/userfiles/files/sakinajekomujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ms01bet.com/contents/files/jolikujib.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://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_off0000cbdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBDD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F4 11516 bytes
SHA-256: da82bbbb28f74147ac36134d3ad9cfff2b235373b7e806e8df1ea8adb90f3bb4
font_02_sfnt_off0000ff3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF3E 16868 bytes
SHA-256: d4d245796671755db0ddd029b7f4eafbd72ab2197385775877c89cf9ab5c820a