Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42d231b9b36d53d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.7 KB Created: 2021-10-03 01:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: ed4208858a78834c8e1fe4b06f35c588 SHA-1: 7b9f2400233b4fe9a8832b5e9802b3fbe1bc3c0b SHA-256: f42d231b9b36d53d5cbdb98722c42426942779b9c0ef8caeb8d70ec46f7066fb
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm on disposable hosting, with one URL pointing to a potentially malicious PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, and the 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam pretext, aiming to trick the user into initiating a fraudulent phone call.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9986

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://greenlandpark.com/uploads/files/66270464685.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://inks.bg/userfiles/file/83703920580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hps-gruppe.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fu96l0u26b9u68o5dlmbckb2co/paguro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fenicia.uy/fenicia.com.uy/uploads/files/19994351574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://helenhotel.vn/upload/files/fileredowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ji-tien.com/userfiles/file/fitajirifatanojab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arte-salon.ru/upload_picture/vomim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zatuchlina.cz/upload/file/bemaxifexilepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smartpaintingplus.com/userfiles/files/55168311668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mgocsm.in/userfiles/file/suwoxuluzalofakuvaxop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://refakatci.net/userfiles/file/53516338822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://youandisagenix.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61162257510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://omni-links-europe.com/images/blog/file/xezenisabujare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hardlineconstruct.ro/app/webroot/files/userfiles/files/74656941301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://thefertilizerequipment.com/d/files/18878421172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pasarangroup1.com/contents/files/60327169317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://panda-es.tokyo/yamituki-n/uploads/files/berorabejadobipase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gimhaejazz.com/fckeditor/userfiles/image/sefedifelorizanigolizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://misr-consult.com/userfiles/file/nabikilonekuxoribaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bcslaw.hu/admin/fck_upload/file/danutovolufusewogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tsnpharma.com/upload/files/80717436180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+download+mini+militia+old+versionPDF 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_off0000af81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF81 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c798.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC798 10552 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0be6f737fb2d65e1e4da838171f8d2437dbf181af6b1a29bbf8f269f935efc
font_02_sfnt_off0000dfa0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFA0 14764 bytes
SHA-256: 3183546c289222d2a37227d08de644c4eb3b7dfd596d3cf12036bb41c7ab044f