Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8775ecaa0ab860cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.5 KB Created: 2021-09-11 18:11:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 717b9b6f1c29596901e8a49c5da58916 SHA-1: caf4f43dcacf664ab41fd0630dc30af5e5f460d0 SHA-256: 8775ecaa0ab860cc0da71634a4e38f3fb9dd6b59472b7701dcf5b2dea67d9edf
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-confidence ML classifier and ClamAV detection. The heuristics indicate it employs social engineering tactics, specifically a 'password-protected archive lure' and a 'browser extension/update installation lure'. These lures are designed to deceive users into performing actions that lead to malware installation or credential theft. The document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, providing no direct content for analysis, but the heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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://www.c-l-r-p.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/59153477834.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://officialbacknumber.com/editor_up/kawolulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://interference.ajoda.eu/userfiles/files/96091227456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dzirerealtors.com/uploads/xofoduvimibapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nfrostov.ru/upload/files/bipurimasefamixezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hpcad.pl/Upload/file/soxiguzaduto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.playitdirect.ca/ckfinder/uploadfiles/files/dopewigebigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://snoman.mb.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jelidobireweze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kprmk.pl/userfiles/file/85721855264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insuralead.com/userfiles/file/bipisor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://igigeothermal.jp/userfiles/file/73430844934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://consultemergingmarkets.cubsindia.com/files/jugaliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenshinorchids.com/FCKeditor_upload/file/mozixirenatomepanob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://altaprecision.com/userfiles/file/dogixarovujoser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.web2business.pt/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613647d112e4a---nimulotafabotuboneza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiolaviano.it/userfiles/files/pegefiguxawonetonunufaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://phu-komplex.pl/pliki/file/95473747111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://j1medical.com/uploaded/file/mewodur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ecohort.com/userfiles/files/lusirebugobiti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://angkagenap.com/contents/files/24713029199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://giritrademark.com/content_files/files/zazupotabogonasumolibeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://form4concrete.ru/pics/cont/file/23049867388.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://czyxchem.com/upload/files/63413448036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/GLLx1DTH0VQ/uplcv?utm_term=how+to+block+adult+content+in+chromePDF 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_off0000e2dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DC 18668 bytes
SHA-256: 0be994824478e5a0e0267d78f0c224b81e15689242fd6a0542879f187fa70f0a
font_01_sfnt_off00011325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11325 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 94dba0de86be017c1e3e81e7a2540912ed9b3f10f1a49af639fe4a018b96ab37
font_02_sfnt_off00012c17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12C17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1