Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2753c1399db3702…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.5 KB Created: 2021-10-16 14:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 00108540319a81b146dbba7351a77a3e SHA-1: 51066ef75d946cddc045136aa3105a1894331cce SHA-256: e2753c1399db3702f274915180d047ac93187e4a161c5c780c29c54e8ea942f5
106 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it is a malformed exploit stream and a link farm, suggesting malicious intent. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic specifically points to a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, where the document likely prompts the user to call a phone number. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier strongly flagged the PDF as malicious, and the presence of external URIs indicates potential redirection or payload delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

Heuristics 6

  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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://abwvictory.com/uploads/files/90707995953.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://full814.com/upload/files/40937496523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ckrestaurantgroup.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/97173859427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratodua.com/contents/files/jaseruvawovaduvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optikametuje.cz/userfiles/file/namutavudamukura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rensind.com/upfolder/e/files/20210924075305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://edv-denk.com/userfiles/file/kizorolasexodudagukin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jdsliquorlocker.com/nbloom/fckuploads/file/65849963820.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hilanguage-com-tw.triangle-design.com/files/susulofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1616350eabe47d---somobesegodafosifozaliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vidaleve.ind.br/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wabebevidajoxazep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leadershipcareer.kr/fckeditor/_upload/file/14048999629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://universalestetic.com/userfiles/file/78897796528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jan-fotografie.nl/upload/files/fufolazujuxizawew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://svarovanijelinek.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wukiforinivonelon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wxeina.com/userfiles/files/14748938015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wksx.top/images/userfiles/file/zomefubuxoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://w-mill.jp/images/file/monedonixewilunuse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vasset.bg/userfiles/file/11132332342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://banner-ever.com/ckImg/files/17827341256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sperrincaravans.com/images/file/85236956626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://impulsa.mantareys.net/uploads/plantillas/files/98378937775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://advance-pack.com/editor_upload/file/80119853047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkycc4.com/kycc4.com/userfiles/files/41042616598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rockpapersun.com/upload_mce_image/file/bujak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Xvkpad/~3/5bhJmFgkeCE/uplcv?utm_term=glossary+of+economic+terms+pdfPDF 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_off0000fd95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFD95 10936 bytes
SHA-256: 8768d15fa4ca7ffbc3440a7e180473d9f09fcbc832f3b46560f2d33689997cdb
font_01_sfnt_off000116fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116FA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f0c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F0C 17632 bytes
SHA-256: 06024e4445cd8991a551b2d51d3fbd63f36ddd9391fe7cb35e95c7d9ac4d047d