Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df2ecc0547b2572a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.3 KB Created: 2021-09-28 14:45:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cff1eb921b1ec3b136b18af5273296f1 SHA-1: 53f4634a2d910f009f90962c580a8d4444b0bbb3 SHA-256: df2ecc0547b2572a6a462bab3656dfce41646c7db33d716d3508ff22b7f9da6c
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, with heuristics indicating it's a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external URLs and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggest a social engineering attack aimed at tricking the user into initiating a phone call for fraudulent purposes. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL patterns are consistent with phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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 https://congtydaihai.com/upload/files/zolobawe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://karpatskiles.ru/store/files/peluzepanarejekamogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quangcaosmsgiare.com/media/ftp/file/lowexevebolagazutinew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e-midas.ro/files/file/39334333900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharjahcements.com/images/bulk_images/files/wopomonuwawada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://daiichilogistics.com/uploads/news_file/kiberorakajaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asdgolfclubtoscana.com/writable/public/userfiles/file/mivogiduritadakonone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wcsps.com.tw/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zivofovox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://0985028898.kad.tw/kads/ckfinder/userfiles/files/14696560431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zzps.pl/userfiles/file/daragazisinefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/tapagurasisosenoluzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ibrahimabuomira.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/54067745615.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goez3.com/10005001208290177/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dowuwetexazova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sosnovgeo.ru/userfiles/file/39335262875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mvdisposal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161448ef5b79af---temekamafalividawovalano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://depcip.com/app/views/panel/ckfinder/userfiles/files/11879346668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://webmenuplus.com/images/file/bulejugupobuzaginiwejavuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aluvioneschicamocha.sinecsas.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vamubewago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dailyhondaotomientay.com/upload/files/nisifobuzebikolikari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rocb-ap.org/file_media/file_image/file/doteved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leoclubmarsala.it/userfiles/files/zadejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://khamranghaiphong.com/upload/files/50328859667.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aprenda-atdi.com/uploads/files/sagivodawuzaberafuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teedinmaesai.com/user_img/file/bekibitajud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://christembassybarking.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/63a2c03021b9bd7432f645e7b0962870/fokubakar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=free+gba+roms+downloadPDF 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_off0000b388.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB388 10604 bytes
SHA-256: fde6d45f2deef6e81d689059a3af3324b48b44d41323fa5a82e678f59dbef862
font_01_sfnt_off0000cb8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCB8C 14264 bytes
SHA-256: ca2311821270b1714e4e86e437b48159a3ac20ee51fd5c5e9bc5eae9e5c7ae88
font_02_sfnt_off0000ef65.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF65 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1