Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec90422602937b48…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.6 KB Created: 2021-09-16 03:03:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-11
MD5: c96b77bd923a5e7d394fd2755363fbc9 SHA-1: f4866abe8bc27f6ea97c5131a750677871fec43f SHA-256: ec90422602937b48aaa27bdb4874856ff8bf3267c9ee832a480cc52bdeb5423c
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, with heuristics indicating it is a link farm and a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the heuristic firings suggest an attempt to trick the user into interacting with malicious links or calling a fraudulent number. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9981

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 http://tdsns.ru/userfiles/file/zofogezuretef.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://safarang.com/basefile/files/84913840730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nowevifugupatulililofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://le-lemniscus-incandescent.fr/ckeditor/upload/files/35405015043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rougezenekar.hu/files/file/betusuwikenimowerel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://siahotel.com/userfiles/files/zokowonubedug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://samirkumarpaul.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/detizolasasafagexivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shbaicun.com/userfiles/file/2021091004451673499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://computer-rudolstadt.de/upload/file/24161591098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ddtoyz.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xesuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartwealthhk.com/userfiles/17402582596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://egokituz.eus/files/galeria/files/17831196001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ahkkpcm.org/userfiles/5846147309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asztromiskolc.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/98048764818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://obasekiestates.com/UserFiles/file/40566501470.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambiance-cinema.fr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/08dfd9d74644bd05b7a7d88e42d785ef/53717697139.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://numismatika-nbkpdy.cz/userfiles/file/febejipesofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/99284518006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vizugy.hu/uploads/files/27062534177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hglobaltourb2c.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210907_300129976B851B54.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thaiwoodengames.com/files/upload/files/62320962844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lanna-flyingclub.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/22086145034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=the+perfect+day+formula+pdf+free+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_off0000ca80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA80 18252 bytes
SHA-256: 3a17e9fd8bb3913de3adec645a49c071a0f66270f760bce8739a91deee7422da
font_01_sfnt_off0000f967.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF967 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 665e2f13927dd2a905fdcd6750da7aaa7f29f7abf6c07e3948a2d68c844324ec
font_02_sfnt_off00011285.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11285 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1