Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7609c35a9b776e8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-09-17 18:57:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: a582540a0fa4b7e13246e237f14b3196 SHA-1: 6eea6256a4b45e85608222d307ecbf92b89d4bb3 SHA-256: 7609c35a9b776e8b550456b6ae8527ec3b6f67e057c34cb0a4f78f1806ea10ae
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to PDF files on various domains, suggests a link farm or redirection mechanism. The heuristic 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' indicates the document may contain instructions for accessing a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway scanning. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URIs are indicative of a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9956

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 http://fortwashington.abwingsmd.com/uploads/files/rufunujekofedisuxati.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://ktcyy.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/50095052712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bamor.org/userfiles/file/67987997169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pk.mo/userfiles/file/wumesokesirimeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mueblesdepladur.es/1/userfiles/file/76702541947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ikuseikyokai.jp/ckmedia/files/nikovagonabelopuzalarovil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://generalaudit.pl/eurostyl/photos/file/85661744172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://glavis.biz/userfiles/file/98371777730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://eseninternational.com/uploads/files/watuvani.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geose.ru/userfiles/file/gizuraseriwewijolavu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dmn.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161386052aded3---daxonoxileruzajuvepom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cloudinfo01.smartevolve.com/images/ckeditor/files/vekipebekexekawebedasedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://traditionsradio.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cb41afde3b9034e86dba16f783aaebb4/38499254855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://realtor-madrid.com/uploades/fckeditorfile/lavanunibevomanuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://systemsbiology.at/uploads/assets/file/80744566854.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pulsarvn.com/media/ftp/file/73073287612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fotobolfestmeny.hu/mvc/userfiles/file/nafale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pfhotel.gr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/67385585292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protectakoteasia.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/pekamit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baltic-rt.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/sigoxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://geomanteia.com/userfiles/files/fenuwogifunilaloxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://asharfilalkulfi.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/xugumovogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gattoneva.pl/pages/userfiles/file/sapap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/LPIa9PGmDLg/uplcv?utm_term=gta+sa+lite+apk+and+obbPDF 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_off0000b6b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6B0 10556 bytes
SHA-256: 3a13c0812a4d4cd068fac066765da4365a67ca3a1b57111bdffc4f2240bd8379
font_01_sfnt_off0000cea3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA3 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000e6b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE6B5 16948 bytes
SHA-256: 1a8d5a853f53b058f71e986ad54735b1647bdd545d72ee935a791e5b84e9cea0