Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed399171a40df15b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-14 09:56:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 8386c4fbd768b4d27c6365226290ac6c SHA-1: 5920940781754f190aa61c48f1377b869e48b444 SHA-256: ed399171a40df15b4d9f0688c004b4eaf8e7ff43813e5ff2cb3a65fcef9b0270
94 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and external URIs, indicating malicious intent. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, where the document prompts the user to call a phone number. The presence of embedded JavaScript further supports the malicious nature of the document, likely used to facilitate the scam or download additional payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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://laborke.ru/uplcv?utm_term=adb+reboot+download PDF link annotation
    • http://jolanyee.com/upload/files/202109140203286956.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stpatswatertown.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/1032290166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chingyi.tw/userfiles/files/wawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://benedictinoselrosal.org/ckfinder/userfiles/files/71503894213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mkontroll.hu/File/zuneniwumalefovez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://abwplazaview.com/uploads/files/topujolevuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kizumevusuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stonepigments.com/userfiles/file/towesetowakojemumif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xinshifm.com/userfiles/file/pajitavegupidomasegeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pcetravel.com/files/file/37163591628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://to-kajihan.net/js/upload/files/wuwesujima.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amkboiler.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rmi4prufsjbigetf5jmgal1osh/96499499592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://grafiport.com/userfiles/file/pozitogokugumasotuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antifftech.com/uploadfile/file///2021090916294028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wenyanchem.com/upload/files/kibasawotabarog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bigcool.net/webroot/img/files/36794572533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fgsconsulta.com.br/ckfinder/uploads/userfiles/files/99273237108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://plagij.at/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fitel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://awarelaxcentrum.cz/user_files/file/22759717895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livres-d-art.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jideramozudupedibaji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brucemayrockinstitute.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/kamanop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://extreamtuning.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613d4870a6071---38359342680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://irodori.kir.jp/files/file/54168139970.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://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_off0000d88a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD88A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0A1 10188 bytes
SHA-256: 78b4f1ff26af7c14dcdc9cfff5f2fbe9d0d4ea1ca2538662bbbdaf41c6fd60b5
font_02_sfnt_off0001079b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1079B 16884 bytes
SHA-256: f86399aeb3f35a1d2958294acf2464a1c3009127852274e55c5e95ddd55bf9a3