Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e54866bedef32f68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.0 KB Created: 2021-03-02 23:19:13 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 57a8e3e252cacc099eed09ed385dfe26 SHA-1: 62d4876b417d1ce5d6454a17539e684e620b8e18 SHA-256: e54866bedef32f6880747e2ec29818ff3820fbe407932d1926c4bfb81d0930d5
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1598.003 URL/Domain Reputation Access T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection for 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, where the document prompts the user to call a phone number. The presence of numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, further supports a phishing or malicious redirection scheme. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and heuristic firings point to a phishing attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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://soxebez.ru/strik?utm_term=how+to+cancel+call+forward+on+nec+phone PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4479435/normal_5fe4adc33dddc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://islandlandscapesbb.com/xutavibesudoripokiwakbsc8q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stepka2016.xyz/58302762552iktyi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://teleporttur.ru/51763778401fw07l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4418583/normal_601dd474e9419.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://milanomodaitaly.site/kegudubesabevad2r9jk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ganitigusawev.mygamesonline.org/77898140289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robertferrell.net/american_red_cross_cprtlgzt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eeeeeyyy.space/epklf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karnaval.host/bumefopomunhwfzt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skameyki.club/falling_in_love_netflix_wiki5eycb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitutepoka.medianewsonline.com/gas_laws_equation_sheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://freud.icu/best_dd_online_game67t4n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457560/normal_602e6f34bf84e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494440/normal_5fcd0052cfbc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiwenalod.medianewsonline.com/can_python_be_used_for_data_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maska-respirator.com/oceanhorn_2_switch_date_de_sortie39nby.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fallofelin.online/lated13co9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dowavelaxam/awadhesh_premi_ke_video_gana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ropidadegaxut/file_from_sftp_server_using_vb._net.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn 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_off0000f993.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF993 5116 bytes
SHA-256: dbe38a5951f2065b4b0d97428ab992118ba799db201f563cf334b0282cc8db99
font_01_sfnt_off00010b08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B08 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 28658ac0b1c74475ead0fb3c0c53498989d55eeefc575124fe145912ac28c9b6
font_02_sfnt_off00012f8a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F8A 17732 bytes
SHA-256: 2b6219bc689a4863b870a6cdadde3b09fa088b1d26e8adf823eb99713b9b644c