Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8787c10b7a544251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:17:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c8222e983b27e2cd6c35221f26893d55 SHA-1: 4fbddd6dae0ecfd047417e783d52a7aaa5895aed SHA-256: 8787c10b7a54425164bdca7cfd13a31b579f54c91d9992828ffdd8af2dc2d7a2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, as malicious and phishing-related. The presence of an external URI and an SEO redirector link suggests a lure to a phishing site or a download page. Although no document body text was readable, the heuristics indicate a phishing attempt, likely delivered as an attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8907

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/S-4CHg4Qmwo/square?utm_term=chemical+formula+from+percent+composition PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e7ef87f29cd6423db534d0/1625812871472/fagizomolokuzez.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/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e94e3d2dabf2723555c839/1625902653141/400m_is_how_many_miles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e929e783ae0c490239664c/1625893352090/lavegog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ec946a243eac6055d041b7/1626117226955/how_to_mirror_effect_in_photoshop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec8db49cb57f380a784dc0/1626115508568/49897344585.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_off0000c37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC37F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB96 10876 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf0f8cb3c9e1d093949d1eff4451a6e2cf51c784be3711c6304330837876989
font_02_sfnt_off0000f48c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF48C 16740 bytes
SHA-256: 355a324d5bd43526c79aaa5b09275f60467de39e8aabd2985be9651cb85d6841