Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 61e9da23ac0f5bbd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-09-10 14:55:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: 9fb99dbaeaf8fb0ed5b4705bdddc230a SHA-1: f8874d1284126dbd7b21e461bc6ced91dcb818aa SHA-256: 61e9da23ac0f5bbd04fc2653c6202b181fa68d2fae0c2d8b0adec55a722d2a2a
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, directing users to various external URLs, one of which is specifically crafted to appear as a download for 'grand theft download'. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests the document may be part of a multi-stage attack involving password-protected archives, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9846

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://synerhu.ru/uplcv?utm_term=grand+theft+download+for+ppsspp PDF link annotation
    • http://saigonradio.com/userfiles/file/gibinodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://christ-china.com/filespath/files/20210907025755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://iktoktatas.hu/files/file/79409746510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigova.com/Images_upload/files/xedizixazukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ecoquimica.cl/dinamicos/uploads/file/67589016910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://undergroundtakeout.com/userfiles/file/buxukezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://comfort8889.com/upload/files/pawasikebubezunera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cosmikkino.ru/sadm_files/jagesojajemezeramufaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lesen-und-schenken.de/userfiles/files/menuliwereva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chilegastronomia.cl/uploads/userfiles/files/kuxezevuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://implant-drill.com/userfiles/file/59895705851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zenmobile.in/jaipriyart/uploads/files/matepinetefuwovomebivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://demo-enriquemora.shopcloud.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/rufevurisolugimesimole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geodez.com/pliki/file/noganodeloda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mcq-exambd.com/app/webroot/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xovulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mgs-on-track.com/uploads/misc/files/tabeparojibip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://siripanyalamphun.com/user_img/files/suruxawulowefude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://soepcentrale-dekeyser.be/userfiles/file/wuxusuxexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rosabrockenhaus.ch/ckfinder/userfiles/files/93444413565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mzr-avocats.com/buddha/ckfinder/userfiles/files/daneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hangtatmj.com/userfiles/58950332172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://safe-international.com/userfiles/file/segelijepapusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cortemadera.com/wysiwygfiles/file/7582784706.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://leosservices.com/userfiles/file/22466315446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cuacuontoanthang.com/media/file/64308844024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://perfecturology.cafe24.com/upload/editor/imagefile/85158376309.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_off0000cbdf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBDF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3F6 10628 bytes
SHA-256: 34e916286ff7cb5c73715ae269fe8797766d7023977783444e35faab534911fc
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc49.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC49 18356 bytes
SHA-256: 3b4e5458b1283d7505ad0f4af654f96dee7992b4cb043c27776d1157f02989be