Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8aa43131692bd2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

88.3 KB Created: 2020-11-20 09:55:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: 8c256771e795464f2fffea22462aef7e SHA-1: cb980101dfbb911c5aeaada62eabd2557b229f0d SHA-256: e8aa43131692bd2ba5c0b5fa022e965c7e85d11622a8d65529a43cd76e2be1d6
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggests a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The 'Callback phishing phone lure' heuristic specifically points to a scam where the user is prompted to call a number, likely for fraudulent purposes. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm activity are indicative of a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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 contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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://trafficel.ru/123?utm_term=garcia+criminal+minds+death PDF link annotation
    • https://mamonujiduvef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134525279/6045819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kavivapepegag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134235540/127222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidofepakanuzok.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096393/384b89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jedopebo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134889916/xesokalefo-niwirafudopos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4392649/normal_5fa145eb134ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nujamoxe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134234607/wobavujepoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://molireju.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134630509/worutajubuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bepugodaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/2/134236138/76170be8b757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pepisukuwen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606293/wodajiteguse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dimaxafazeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453031/5d44fdbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuserivexujeza.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134331384/widowadek-gidexalozowa-gotedeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4e33aeb2-48bd-4982-bcd3-28cba71dbb18/98636088431.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d271b907-6752-4cdd-9e36-161145e2a366/puworuxaremer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/38d7432a-9f18-4671-bf0f-58c2cfccddbe/mm_a_pulgadas_mm2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9fb17484-6c50-41ed-84bb-01ccb0cedb0f/stone_heads_fortnite.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://sinhala.sourceforge.net/In PDF document text
    • http://sinhala.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/sinhala/sinhala/fonts/CREDITSIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEE9 5212 bytes
SHA-256: cb194cf2d097b26d177da3cbeedd225bcbdf41a09de4c78a1351d3e365f616c4
font_01_sfnt_off0000f031.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF031 27368 bytes
SHA-256: 1b0a83dba74d7aa0e3ea2168e158af840b9b083227e3159c8aebe7e3d3001ac7
font_02_sfnt_off000130b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x130B6 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 990e9caf27e431c534222b52da0d13935cb21260f84460d331490d9879e7dc03