Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 105e785fc6fca079…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-07-20 01:41:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 978fa8ccb259258be24058149ef1cb53 SHA-1: 46d64b8d21b5aa1582d68fd2d98ccad8ad974c78 SHA-256: 105e785fc6fca0796c6624f82c63d64d81be3eb9b92421f7b0ddc0c0e48edd4b
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, as malicious phishing content. The PDF contains an embedded URI that acts as an SEO redirector, leading to a URL associated with free-download phishing. While no executable scripts were extracted, the structure and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing lure designed to redirect users to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9937

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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sq/ugae/~3/gOBB6uaVNRA/square?utm_term=how+much+tip+for+fishing+charter PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60f502207121636e99b4f8c7/1626669600688/execution_book_by_ram_charan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ec92f0b3b63f0898f33867/1626116848999/solving_rational_inequalities_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60f1a79e31458d1e5c5b14f7/1626449822266/sizezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60f3123ade9f7d6ab7b7fb85/1626542650196/88161478658.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60f36551db752c5e49acc57c/1626563921465/22697486715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60f09b3fbe235f3a2c556a74/1626381119589/nipujonogabawuxivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60f4d0dbe3dec17ca074dc49/1626656987339/mekemarifixigopojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60f5fdb92f280d2ca8ef8ffb/1626734009410/sepefose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60f5feebd4aaed51c70d6eb7/1626734316033/lotoreropeten.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_off0000cdf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDF9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e60b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE60B 16920 bytes
SHA-256: 2e8a8e42a2642a716d45187c984af3b1a87c13c89c0159e5ddbc3673bbc98566
font_02_sfnt_off0001123c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1123C 11056 bytes
SHA-256: b6905963119aa97b455e148c381d288520b866bf51e83f5488088096eb4fb6f9