Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 857d19b4cddb4019…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 08:33:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d82f442d0da546b4739bbf9bb3327bf2 SHA-1: d8cb1f8fa90e4cf4aba06ed5151bb8689388c3cb SHA-256: 857d19b4cddb40196742e17699c4374c06f141f582a49195efdbc65912ba4e45
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains a heuristic firing indicating an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, suggestive of a phishing attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of a redirector URL points towards a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7483

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/razvivatel/yapz/~3/-MXWpcYQ7kA/square?utm_term=creating+certificates+in+word PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e78adcba333063f173712e/1625787100728/brad_pitt_and_harrison_ford.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60edec2ee11d817478d389ab/1626205231174/when_your_ready.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ec9336b3b63f0898f345ae/1626116918661/38980555379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60edb91a1608af7c639ff9bd/1626192154320/amortized_payment_meaning.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_off0000c940.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC940 15356 bytes
SHA-256: 7e24f4b870ba2aeffb395be19b881fe09797937f2f68a8d8febd1c1e254b5a9e
font_01_sfnt_off0000f075.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF075 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001088c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1088C 10724 bytes
SHA-256: ab2ba79e632b3117076b9c4f76c011dca11f210f925dfc508d1d857806c7080d