Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcbcafdcc2623adf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.6 KB Created: 2021-09-20 05:07:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 0fc8333e805e92f7a812da042173799a SHA-1: f74d1abc65ccc1931cc4e284b8042db3a5e09f89 SHA-256: fcbcafdcc2623adf90119e4a7d710d66a8deaa8727d3187900fcd1a4970d0302
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier indicating maliciousness. The 'SE_CALLBACK_LURE' heuristic strongly suggests a callback phishing or tech-support scam, where the user is prompted to call a number. While no explicit scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a phishing attempt, likely delivered as a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9975

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 http://slowjamsundays.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16142d85e06bf7---46714619509.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://pcparts.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vijitibumibagufule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.indoorclub-informa.com/boletines/img/file/sinokuzetedijisis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bishopsalamatkhokhar.org/userfiles/file/mozebazatoxomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://spcinternational.in/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lawuxasogivakojoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krakow4you.pl/krakow/files/bipovajilinawepojanim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rivieresoceanie.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50056270675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://scherzerpc.com/customer/3/d/9/3d947ad6ce2568d98b832ccf5548371bFile/binuloji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reicar.dk/userfiles/file/78340356930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://torgoborud.org/images/file/75964999377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://planet-pvc.com/upload/files/zonezegogiwufulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://attackworkoutprogram.com/app/webroot/files/ckfinder/userfiles/files/2209427246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://konemara.hu/userfiles/file/73988941940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.johnknox.ch/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161435a7f819d8---77105583170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lyzjkgm.com/d/files/35167015974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://finproekt-msk.ru/userfiles/file/muferudikevuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rivebistro.net/ckfinder/userfiles/files/18487824675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://olddieselparts.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/mejibuwudolesawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gmart-express.com/demo/uploadpic/file/gorixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://moolans.com/uploads/files/66235163781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sanipro.ma/app/webroot/uploaderfiles/luzorubejivufexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://duplisite.com/userfiles/file/31265468583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.campacinter.com/image/upload/File/jetigawilapifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://taikenplan.jp/ckfinder/userfiles/files/fuboraludiwaliwapefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://youkuvpn.com/upload/files/18134071050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=vidmate+download+2017+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_off0000b60e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB60E 14756 bytes
SHA-256: b56dc1c145e33ac922a5a14307ddbdf6e04fe27d5e1fb37573bd3f9efcaed1f5
font_01_sfnt_off0000db09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB09 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 6a393517b53fc541dc780380ce6ed1fb65bf253d5b8b31d20b661c504b5f1291
font_02_sfnt_off0000f45a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF45A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1