Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed6cf8d1b3da1fa3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.6 KB Created: 2021-09-14 11:08:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: a7da6022ce4d844ad96c86a93c3fd785 SHA-1: 5bc68d25f25cd8b2923eefa644dd307e63694e47 SHA-256: ed6cf8d1b3da1fa319bbbd38a3e927f387f75389045dcf02f866354cbf8fb021
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, and exhibits characteristics of a callback phishing lure. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files suggests an attempt to host malicious content or redirect users. The heuristic 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' directly indicates a phishing pretext involving a phone call.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=telecharger+langue+francais+pour+telephone+android PDF link annotation
    • http://andlupa.com/userfiles/file/lapatabumulil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sovaimm.it/userfiles/files/soxavoseke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://airelimpio.mx/img/editor/file/dotilafomubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikomisushiwc.com/uploads/files/gijudebukawojive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ez4parcel.net/upfile/files/2021/09/08/miwiniguxefosexowodud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remini.hu/userfiles/file/butirijegoxovevoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--hh0b97d8is16e.com/userData/board/file/lotezesoluvudibafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://primer-spb.ru/files/files/57735226103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alconsprom.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gaxesubosarofidilonijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.pepinieres-gey.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vopogamelozomakiwabaniluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kodemari.info/data/files/4950012881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asqcert.net/files/files/64802439530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agrion.org/upload/fichier/zedelifoxazewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://santeh.md/img/files/tuwudabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://recapress.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/nufisadanemanevapudixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interno-kazan.ru/upload/files/siwerela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mywymc.com/userfiles/file/30314809438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://futimisdev.com/userfiles/file/26692720993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beysukonaklari.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/gigujojexixidixub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aer5aza.xn--19-kmcm3c.xn--p1ai/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fotilasuxeriwinat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bmcnx.com/userfiles/file/giwulifififo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hoclaixebinhthuan.com/upload/contentFile/file/64342040034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vaness-sens.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/38446934980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aarushimukhwas.idealviews.com/userfiles/files/49599108991.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stopasbestos.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613939355fe51---39543071223.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_off0000b5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5C4 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdd6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDD6 17636 bytes
SHA-256: 9821b66eca6bc81326a5219a9c9589142d87f2bf93cf3005b76ee9889c8432e9
font_02_sfnt_off0000f919.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF919 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 998406abb0ff170ea9c062df16fd66261572d521478080d34db70e735ac79648