Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b9e953fdfd9e117…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.1 KB Created: 2021-03-20 23:45:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-03
MD5: c9a025be0f90dcb1c8b2969059f38326 SHA-1: 269834ffad31d9396cb1134fc03447c55656a2bd SHA-256: 1b9e953fdfd9e117e670d258cf648d3f0a370bbabac8f0c7a38e009e5285e11d
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious. It contains a link farm of numerous PDF files hosted on various domains, with a specific focus on keywords like 'kartilya ng katipunan pdf english'. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates that the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to evade initial gateway scanning. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

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
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.
  • 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://nipisod.ru/award?keyword=kartilya+ng+katipunan+pdf+english PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/siripeka/jghfiiJ/retebolesevaluviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebotus.mypressonline.com/wojibasobesifilini.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xalapuzim.sportsontheweb.net/damosisupadofasanox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rozujed.sportsontheweb.net/13713361293.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tavaxikanabu/cQ4gggg/fuzovafatapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gepogixuzusesil.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999736/lumalefefanalivigive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sipataj.sportsontheweb.net/zilimivasadevevedamotalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vumiluvitut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696113/2679134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veruvipavopa.getenjoyment.net/what_sith_are_canon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://saworajopasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775294/5632264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0c399e60-5f07-4a30-a5ae-ebe9e56cdbb6/profusion_ceramic_heater_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6d4a3f09-cc90-4f72-980c-875940da9c4e/forklift_operator_training_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wozimape.onlinewebshop.net/what_is_the_size_of_a_newspaper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wolobugoxew.myartsonline.com/zitebozivawatenutetasoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c09a6024-928e-43c2-88ae-6272938d77c9/851650693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2dc0326d-ac60-47d8-bf46-f2dc9d334570.filesusr.com/ugd/21b4a7_cf645bf5f6434cd5947ef86b52ddf1fd.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://aa3bb5c3-2bd4-4791-9e2a-6e31d5009b04.filesusr.com/ugd/60e703_b8c3912f877448d0bfe0ab88e5b89d63.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7d6e376e-1ee3-4df5-88c1-8d1511d419f8.filesusr.com/ugd/7dd30d_c248306bc54540ceadf1806e6e37e7d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://sofibimibojas.myartsonline.com/enigma_otiliei_comentariu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4ba18577-329b-4de2-999b-b1b58d378f7d/bravos_washer_code_f51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3575416b-78e2-4a31-85ec-fc44efaac2ca/how_to_program_my_uniden_bearcat_scanner.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000105e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x105E2 16748 bytes
SHA-256: 6d5a6e1c734158af28f3c5e1c06d8469a80a0cb4886b5dfb711ea55f1f0c9f71
font_01_sfnt_off00013c93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C93 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 63cd965e975acc3c9950050a821631279f0dc39ce396aa29c8e191cc6e7cbfe2
font_02_sfnt_off00014f1b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14F1B 11900 bytes
SHA-256: c58e87a83c23e99262be9f6e89f93599bb551e4b197b742a1db5f29746f2b07e