Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f2c8480de9e5c21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.3 KB Created: 2021-07-16 11:08:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-13
MD5: 66bd83af383884554ce4ade210be9b5f SHA-1: 8e8f5ec5205253afb30a92e93bf3a96bfb9183f0 SHA-256: 2f2c8480de9e5c214c0588811505031c553fffee43be53b0f0b1bf8110051984
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a high-severity heuristic firing for a redirector link disguised as a free download, indicating a phishing lure. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of a malicious redirector URL suggests the document is intended to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8028

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/~3/4Ji06Fp1PxY/square?utm_term=acca+manual+s PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60ee99181cf0e6777f33418f/1626249496605/technology_derived_from.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ed94d5c8312e4ee1dd9e5d/1626182869791/fastest_way_to_get_flying_in_legion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e96122c0906550d90d0864/1625907490542/painting_terms_art.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_off0000c6f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6F7 9932 bytes
SHA-256: 1105060a4e19a80044b2f54bd207c33327cc4fa38d9f2bb81a18a271c86ebd37
font_01_sfnt_off0000dcdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDCDD 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 8d7c531f53e9c787e18f0b3c9f2b84466845f6aed3867560c11f225fe9ac7f32
font_02_sfnt_off0001088b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1