Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea51c5f2dcb42242…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.5 KB Created: 2020-11-16 17:21:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-02
MD5: 9e740503b20d28228e55a5e861efc00e SHA-1: 08aeabc275258c083e1014079e13a3a816570fa2 SHA-256: ea51c5f2dcb42242d8d287cde1bfd965dc34078b9fed8f020d7dc009fecf621e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It uses a callback-phone (TOAD) lure. The file embeds a large number of external links characteristic of an SEO link farm and routes users through malicious redirector infrastructure. Specific URLs and indicators for this sample are listed in the indicators section.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/123?utm_term=malheur+county+assessor+map In PDF document text
    • https://sowameneritela.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775755/pejovoletug-basajewawa-molivolopuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366007/normal_5f937ee2994cd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393016/normal_5f95bbe29703c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4374536/normal_5f91fc109d7d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vukasusig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134349680/bupaxolebofe-xukot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415745/normal_5fa3a06246506.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/8d83a22b-6abf-41b9-83ef-ee9b664d7fea/tabugin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5d749031-6cc4-42c0-896f-a6696dbda92f/63917146599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/721e497f-68f1-4660-9914-8dd1526bed18/corel_draw_x5_free_download_with_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/569fc0e9-95f6-4d5d-be9f-10a1bc529948/pevasibodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pizexopenaxu/53971247875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/toliwudalamem/tomofodipirubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/17cdfcc3-812b-451f-8bdc-f7c241c5a718/ielts_speaking_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77ef004b-0124-48d9-a4db-19a320d7cf11/jiu_jitsu_manteca_ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b761ccb5-167a-4080-a12c-ccef7de673b5/89609903437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/858fb3d1-b950-48bb-a3b0-1f854ee9f1db/nuruzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7ff2b31d-22a9-4c4a-abe5-ab5a4db6adf2/13828699937.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b879.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB879 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 5bc404a7206202fb9b050173444fa4a32375db3d1221aa4f39b2c2c9f697b2aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ca51.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA51 10908 bytes
SHA-256: 678c1789bd297485cdeb35de8d3bedd9c4f2c4065034fffdf4f5c064694627c6