Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a98cb806e979369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.5 KB Created: 2021-07-16 18:38:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 9147aaa8d068bd06da3fde3bc13cc745 SHA-1: 1db276d41a49a178406a43aed3efc25c1bef6bc4 SHA-256: 0a98cb806e9793694e81a01c1278b1273659a4b6682bcdf10ed08ef003c7806e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a high-severity heuristic firing indicating an image lure linking to an SEO redirector for free-download phishing. The embedded URL, https://huntic.ru/square?utm_term=unit+plan+template+word, is the primary indicator of this phishing attempt. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the URL suggest a phishing lure, likely intended to lead the user to a malicious download or further phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7788

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://huntic.ru/square?utm_term=unit+plan+template+word PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ee8f0586aa876280c0d941/1626246917105/call_of_duty_warzone_font.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60f08b99c7dc34644a8bea26/1626377113762/griller_for_fish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ede1a1d6ef6771c1dc48f7/1626202529747/zetatoxuxorepuzuvezuzogix.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_off0000c283.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC283 10476 bytes
SHA-256: 859ef41ec403dd3ca0240ede8ebb3a46d4639f4e6bdd0b3ed0d788bddb06f777
font_01_sfnt_off0000da4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDA4A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f25c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF25C 15732 bytes
SHA-256: 59ae2855113e7595c396be1406ce0980621b628ee459a8b3e6b7c2adaf610eb1