Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed9ffa1a1e28e1ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2021-10-02 13:22:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 72d8854f93ed18be854d6e853062c0f1 SHA-1: 34d68113a3be1352d7ba1282f67f5e3622f606e3 SHA-256: ed9ffa1a1e28e1ef62c9858c86388e170dd0a5b361b4c7f8104214975c689129
86 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document flagged by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or a distribution mechanism for further malicious content. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content is designed to trick users into calling a phone number, a common tactic in callback phishing and tech-support scams. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a malicious intent to redirect users or deliver further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9885

Heuristics 5

  • 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://teamcode.net/upload/files/birolunemifasodebe.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://guanzhuli.com/userfiles/file/mopevozoren.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1tlstar.com/storage/uploads/files/xadilamitejosusifudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://swagath.co/new/ckfinder/userfiles/files/69021937826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ykzn8.com/upfiles/editor/files/jonibuvab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.neoneophytou.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xusugapifumapemomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lgassociates.in/uploads/luxisaxasapab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dxczx.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20210910_042321.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://performanshost.com/calisma2/files/uploads/zisasevekigovirezigulejol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://all-stage-meditation.tw/uploads/files/6137b2dfd2904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zbirozskepodzamci.cz/userfiles/diporapofuxorobegefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fivelscope.net/fckimages/56466681384.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sicurezzaips.it/uploads/file/54333985480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pyroglobal.sk/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/narodalopun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marjoleintje.nl/include/userfiles/75038773012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://debeleven.net/UserFiles/File/62077692507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://triatlonshop.cz/userfiles/file/48106077993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baharev76.ru/userfiles/file/51546487489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://drakbera.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/3458568371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.enviedecrire.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613a7a520cf2a---gawororitef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://montpellier-business-plan.eu/mbp/upload/images/images/upload/ckfinder/fuzexemenuzubuvojuwobeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://telewebmarketing.com/FCKeditor/file/jowovebalukafegalake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butzbacher.turnpoint.jo/app/webroot/upload/files/91347629594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kasihpaham.com/contents/files/vivazavedijofel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rannatennis.ee/data/upfiles/files/gizidamomude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://groupelamiri.com/uploads/FCK_files/file/moluzisolesor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://agilesolutions.in/uploads/9847921761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malimbe.africa/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8eb15a68b63bb666350a718eb96d094f/sonanitobivisejanabaxep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/PmAiG5ZyT-k/uplcv?utm_term=knowles+theory+of+andragogy+pptPDF 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_off0000b5bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5BB 17984 bytes
SHA-256: 476b6a2e386d750928058b1e3784b5f18d83c71713e18b52553b2424d8c354ec
font_01_sfnt_off0000e368.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE368 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB7F 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 7125079889fda73efbf2fff7b5c06951433588c3992374a3312ef06d1668808c