Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e38b5ed3a40aee7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-09-17 08:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: b823aa5f7d6fafe67da2ce91e116f946 SHA-1: 9573352ad2fc51cf7271cc17b02b536a93212c81 SHA-256: 9e38b5ed3a40aee72b3d237846926dd0396c69955504a3910da518bfab0b99a9
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML classification and ClamAV detection. The presence of a 'password-protected archive handoff' heuristic, combined with numerous disposable URLs and link farm characteristics, strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the overall pattern indicates a lure to download an encrypted payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9977

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
  • 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://infrive.ru/uplcv?utm_term=cannot+print+password+protected+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://latework.cz/soubory/49245118028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greenbins.ca/ckfinder/userfiles/files/95291025736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.carolglassman.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613adf97791b9---36425580338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://piazzademarini3ge.com/userfiles/files/31698327522.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://timavoshipsupply.it/userfiles/file/77372858313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phubozena.pl/userfiles/file/1194721896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://music-summer-courses.eu/upload/files/35988864175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://urgentcarepb.com/userfiles/file/fowatadudoduxidokox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ctnphrae.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/zafavidarotidefunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tehla.eu/userfiles/file/33186228242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foundlight.ca/home/foun6192/public_html/files/custom_files/file/78887833286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://quanhoangtsi.com/upload/quangtri/files/sopomowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.synagoge-stommeln.de/ckfinder/userfiles/files/tikoxofogosiziruna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vmkmsz.hu/userfiles/file/jodokotivorovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rify.us/cms-uploads/files/donujiditiduganus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ohligschlaeger-berger.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ad7b8e415c---51852139526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://robwalker.net/fckupload/file/dewepevusenori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mobil-tech.com/files/1998385786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ks-system.co.uk/ckfinder/userfiles/files/kesobusafabadivorivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pluimveebeurs.com/userfiles/file/13652491405.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.pethouse.es/ckfinder/userfiles/files/89012018781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://caminodesantiagoenmoto.com/assets/ckfinder/core/connector/php/uploads/files/13891756438.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marta-galan.com/files/varios/file/pobizewaku.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_off0000d3a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A7 17968 bytes
SHA-256: 5a76c1c584f3a61aa2249196ffb91a02288671d64d55f8a2894b6928019a0d3a
font_01_sfnt_off00010226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10226 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011a3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A3D 10684 bytes
SHA-256: 4d768d9e579735638120f0fae1759e68acc73b1bd606710f16f0aa5cb58cda11