Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9088b489badac32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-20 20:49:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: f938b43533bff81c48c0320d1ebff6eb SHA-1: 596bbb24e828d6f2e320e52d42cd3ba95d6b0830 SHA-256: e9088b489badac32f776ce995a0a2bc8b4d3e14c9536aa4a534bd29f802f1c5c
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is classified as malicious by ML and ClamAV, and heuristics indicate it's a link farm designed to host other PDFs. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests the document's purpose is to trick users into downloading a password-protected archive, likely containing a malicious payload. The embedded URLs point to various PDF files, reinforcing the idea of a multi-stage download or redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9980

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://khambenhxahoi115.com/images/files/lodavikikewojinifozij.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://synphabase.ch/upload/file/59848241013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mpti.ru/userfiles/file/xegemiwibuzosojedojiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/wisejaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antonellascarpittadesigner.it/userfiles/files/mugisidiwununikapefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sallytour.com/FileData/ckfinder/files/20210909_4C9C70F24087067B.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jodhpurheritagewalk.com/images/file/86254514153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://livredart.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/romerofegeborapufadinogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://e-kva.ru/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/lokeborupufawalopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ooo-kenk.ru/userfiles/file/79444038917.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mma-montessori.com/admin/ckfinder/userfiles/files/82856734868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://broadviewlibrary.org/uploaded_bvlib/file/pokojifibofemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://celovechurch.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/89347d93cd25b9cec7931c582bce3b09/xonajogititesazizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://heritagecambodiatravel.com/userfiles/file/49657390739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://archgeo-leszno.pl/uploads/userfiles/files/40651939598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.samuitns.com/image/upload/File/joxeravaladasavenapumevem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cerritos.songhakbbq.com/uploads/files/buxodawubofikog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tenfci.org/userfiles/file/96254584136.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://funagamex.vn/PhuongNamGroup/userfiles/files/43437913305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokseinstituttet.dk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16136b67ff323e---zulunibop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artgraf24.pl/userfiles/file/14226370316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://winfielddeli.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/depibesezujul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=como+descobrir+senhas+wi+fi+pelo+androidPDF 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_off0000dbd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDBD5 21336 bytes
SHA-256: f1c738d5d73a40f7298f94a986bcca311aa8ad6a7612d86a4ad1e0a160de63ad
font_01_sfnt_off000110bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110BC 11044 bytes
SHA-256: e17896aaad92fee56970ddb03fd8ff147992be49c513784363f20899cbecaa8c
font_02_sfnt_off00012a10.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12A10 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1