Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1d328ae12847cce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-09-18 00:24:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: 13573e1594e72ad20460e8acddc8802f SHA-1: 2c996a864d877f621aca05033893a36d80470cff SHA-256: f1d328ae12847cce1877a7d6a41b0f575488440f14ceb23497824576c95206ee
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external URIs, indicating malicious intent. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pattern, where the user is prompted to call a number. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious verdict. The document body was unreadable, but the heuristics and URLs point to a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9960

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • 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://wastran.ru/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+set+ringtone+on+motorola+android PDF link annotation
    • http://mfcpavpos.ru/file/49153584092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bandenplaats.nl/cmsimages/file/22837714657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.greenfield-sustainability.com/images/files/tekogoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://designmaster.in/scgtest/eec-new/codelibrary/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dovegoxejabegipanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://osullivanspressurewashing.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16134656cadd32---muletosomugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trenermichal.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16132bb792c667---gemevegawulojipimesiniwux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dpengineerindia.com/admin/userfiles/file/zonowufudejovig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://atputasbazes.lv/images/userfiles/files/83126056038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fractinvest.com/uploads/file/5123253392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://delve-cr.com/uploads/watukaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://seyrimerdin.com/userfiles/file/runipodafetiwexokub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dangkykinhdoanhkiengiang.com/upload/ck/files/tajiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://residencecarlofelice.com/userfiles/files/7690745140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pmcp-avac.com/files/upload-ckfinder/files/pifelatur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://faithleader.org/js/ckfinder/userfiles/files/21263062980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://softwarefactory.nl/images/file/buvatufikojufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myapartment.de/web/editor/files/378927209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boras-sjuharad.boj.se/uploads/userfiles/files/76251719798.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ifaistos.reality.gr/~triantaf/images/file/bilexagixagavukexazizonej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://datev.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/wafalesojusiro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://movimientofamiliadejesus.com/images/uploaded/file/zipizodobuxidul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.de.ruben.pl/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50530105594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.instalacionescueto.com/nueva/ckfinder/userfiles/files/29225600046.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_off0000d229.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD229 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 725bfb9ff26a8e4105c74fddda67d813b193432161f891fd28da2839bcb4cb1e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea63.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA63 17808 bytes
SHA-256: c0fc33fa57a4fd83799fdb90918da2104097d5675cb8fc9cdbd22751dd31f387
font_02_sfnt_off00011902.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11902 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1