Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 114f6454d7786414…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.4 KB Created: 2021-07-19 00:16:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 682bad8dc574ce08a37863059a0f29e6 SHA-1: a1b2e6658eb92916dfd6e5220ce7bd3b92f085ff SHA-256: 114f6454d7786414d4e8e44f4f5094996c4e4c6fea93d59c144964cbb44d30aa
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate the use of an image lure to redirect users to an external URL, which is a common phishing tactic. Although no document body text was readable, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall detection suggest a phishing attempt designed to lure users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9478

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/HbdJGeoIq_s/square?utm_term=questionable+activity+report PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60f49905c2d40e67ec1896bb/1626642693885/ifstream_and_ofstream_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ec8e23243eac6055cf9858/1626115619761/positive_attitude_meaning_in_malayalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60e7d198b977dd1475c9b7e4/1625805208974/ketepozegevasifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60f1c6cddcdd8623a7e90bd0/1626457805683/american_primary_school_books_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ed8e29f84adf285bf46505/1626181161762/wiwilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ec94c358d864752e02848b/1626117315403/didatema.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec7cf0ad4a1a22a3e6cafa/1626111216796/35209015341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e865d076f22a3f7f6cd32f/1625843153041/no_credit_card_free_porn_game.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_off0000d34c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD34C 17220 bytes
SHA-256: 4a91f5b3f963ae162cdd6f617871844de1529665ffeacd9e361bf53052f7f14c
font_01_sfnt_off0001006e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1006E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011885.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11885 10848 bytes
SHA-256: 0622e79da5bca0e17cbb1523710173c63a06281674b2a2596d0381140d81548d