Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9fa11a74e08c9cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.7 KB Created: 2021-10-09 08:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 9d1da2bef5e6951b7fcf66e2777a8f2a SHA-1: cfc120633600624725b51b37932f8708ebbe6cb3 SHA-256: f9fa11a74e08c9cd35bfd47b8470b0b1c3fbe60078d29c3fac72d5794032ad0b
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. Heuristics indicate it contains external URIs and acts as a link farm, with one URL specifically mentioning 'canadian banc corp' and another pointing to a PDF file. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the user is prompted to call a number. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external links are consistent with malicious document delivery mechanisms.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9949

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://catamma.ru/uplcv?utm_term=canadian+banc+corp PDF link annotation
    • http://life-homeshop.buyout8.com/asset/uploads/files/26946878822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badoza.net/userfiles/file/lumadugozilufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.udelimpa.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/letosapukiwoxaduseduzat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rhuyscampingcar.fr/images/files/77009027776.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cicm2015.mist.ac.bd/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/muzidawune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aitrans.org/UploadFile/file/F1202109212200538710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://northcity.rs/slike/files/panagagawamibibajufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wtmasonry.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/womowokirifupujejino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://salsainkonstanz.de/media/files/nuluzol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clinicaveterinariamontecchia.com/userfiles/files/8705517079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://twapp.freshkon.com/upload/files/4473303931.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tianjin.relieved007.cn/upload/files/sojuxipelixapusopabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idroter.org/userfiles/files/miloxofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aryaayur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613404e0e109d---97910319430.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ineke-ott.nl/keramiek-beelden-imagesfile/lotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://denda.co.kr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/toxexekexedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ombelicodelmondo.it/themes/userfiles/files/18733811529.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://8cj2aja7-8mxb.com/contents/files/93464371721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.olympussverige.se/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/gadrr9ekkkkbho7asn777rpf7l/wazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lejonhund.com/upload/61760793803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://healthlantern.com/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xosoriwilidofejad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://easypayindia.in/userfiles/file/238569934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kultmotor.hu/images/files/sofitimozivujutuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pferdefreunde-brueckenhof.de/sites/default/files/userfiles/file/6223999093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://equimat-cheval.fr/file/4065910712.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_off0000d5e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E7 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000edf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDF9 19884 bytes
SHA-256: fb47fc2b714460dee0c5f3a018c9ff9407e8a4830ce8020c7dab3e6d36b9941b
font_02_sfnt_off0001228f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1228F 10236 bytes
SHA-256: 54b39e830969ebe8a33fc6b1d48983f2c6ce24a2ee4b9aabd357e4e736a89c8a