Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ff8affcc2d3edf4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

118.0 KB Created: 2017-11-27 04:36:28 +02:00 Authoring application: Microsoft® Word 2016
MD5: 827ac668ba87601591cb012735ef4793 SHA-1: 8d152b3f07dff10d5226cb93a595bb7f9ff79330 SHA-256: 2ff8affcc2d3edf4f7ff1940e9bbea63d7bdd75dfcb6bed105bd59ad812c942f
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that impersonates a cloud document lure, as indicated by the SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE heuristic. It contains an embedded external URL, http://squeezeplay.mx/adodemameeew/, which is flagged as a potential download source. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7245443-0' strongly suggests this PDF is a dropper designed to download and execute a secondary payload from the identified URL.

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7245443-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Dropper.Agent-7245443-0
  • Cloud document impersonation lure medium SE_CLOUD_DOC_LURE
    Document impersonates a cloud file-sharing service such as SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Microsoft 365 and asks the user to open, verify, or access a shared document
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://squeezeplay.mx/adodemameeew/
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/