Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 901f992ff6703155…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.1 KB Created: 2021-07-12 23:10:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: e24d737c77caf97388593963c8ac4064 SHA-1: 8447dd3645e6f0dcb3144350db9292e0a6aa37d6 SHA-256: 901f992ff6703155f2cde906fdfc713b8ca2b0fdae331b3114b89460263bdd5b
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a specific ClamAV detection for Pdf.Phishing.Trojan. The presence of a PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic indicates the document is designed to trick users into clicking a link, likely for phishing purposes. The embedded URL points to a redirector service, which is a common technique in phishing campaigns.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8907

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/iYdez4bKglI/square?utm_term=by+in+large+phrase PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e8c23b9ffc3426e8a4401d/1625866811336/rurebufuvoditi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec72fa2de9850677718ec8/1626108666955/pewivuxosuzigitefam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ec8c4672e2584f24643754/1626115142631/17846099028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e906f518245d33f180b046/1625884405280/seven_things_i_hate_about_you_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60ec7f08288cf71862a90cd8/1626111752866/tentatively_meaning_in_gujarati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec894a700aa07a7895794c/1626114378771/lusujuvegaroka.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_off0000c5e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5E6 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 22dfcaaef9f5cc42d46cb3583bff56a3a8ccfb5b9ae004332541a8a2fdc64d68
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD91 16684 bytes
SHA-256: 43d925f0f568e110f18ed193b539c2a969b600a8db134777e52bd74f28a9abbb
font_02_sfnt_off000108d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108D6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1