Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df206fb7de2faf10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.4 KB Created: 2021-10-01 13:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-23
MD5: 1891e09e335707a86902e83bdd8a6428 SHA-1: a60daafd2f2c3c3968f6886f931c0476f372bfae SHA-256: df206fb7de2faf10a4f87c162cebdb2d4d18e3f3e4d233beb7b69df1640625ef
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for a phishing trojan and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the document likely prompts the user to call a fraudulent number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to potentially compromised or suspicious domains, indicates a phishing or redirection attempt. The document's creation by wkhtmltopdf suggests it may have been generated programmatically to host these lures.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9837

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://abwnickersonplaza.com/uploads/files/49693997503.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vkts.se/userfiles/file/3273706147.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mitrasuksesku.com/userfiles/file/zukafixukoxisujebifukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dworbieland.pl/userfiles/file/tazopejunutufususazuwanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sudahhabis.com/contents/files/35348675507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotellemaritime.com/hotel/upload/files/93729716841.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://theydeserveastamp.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161531cb14875d---29425076851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sloplast.com/userfiles/files/68767871701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwanbim.iwan.co/userfiles/files/90241087668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sangiorgioautoservizi.com/userfiles/files/41386424706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://braintreeclinics.com/app/webroot/img/files/taguginawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://przyklejki.pl/userfiles/24699081346.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ginkgokatsugg.com/uploads/files/94887178179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fullcolorspandoeken.nl/userfiles/file/xibazebilizok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vientangluc.com/upload/files/besejigukolulinifexivufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://struttur-arch.it/userfiles/files/12711931140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://medicentrumnz.eu/medicentrum/files/file/wugikegubugisikot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haenuri.net/ckupload/files/favofevifarot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://biomehl.com/images/content/files/7230202604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carzip.biz/files/uploads/files/wazisexoguwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwmarlboropike.com/uploads/files/27307028808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://andrelandberg.com/userfiles/file/tigavovagipaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://railwaysrailroads.com/upload_files/files/7912006551.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tnhmc.com/userfiles/file/22651391793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://decom.pro/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lulimagotuwuwepowokenixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chongqinghaohong.com/upload/files/berifuxateposez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mattig-accounting.bg/fisiere/file/migefesuzifapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=en+moi+2016+watch+onlinePDF 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_off0000b169.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB169 10760 bytes
SHA-256: 7cec5ef06441e9200e55684b7c6fcdf1406d4d836857fc4f024d0264e3fb5815
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca0d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA0D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e21f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE21F 14824 bytes
SHA-256: 1430c570698347b668e644beebb4565add0e184b769ce879cc6890ea21f06c73