Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92eee290b81dcb94…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.2 KB Created: 2021-07-21 00:46:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: b36cd46a7f9cb72fb8cbf1d11e4662e2 SHA-1: 3c6749886106a126cff06dab4bb6c79cdfaf8611 SHA-256: 92eee290b81dcb9432212dba79b041df98e514624c167f147820098f04ffc0bd
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and a machine learning classifier indicated a high probability of maliciousness. Heuristics identified an external URI and an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, suggesting a phishing attempt or a download lure. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the nature of the detected threat imply potential for embedded malicious JavaScript or other exploits.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8847

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/ZV5PD9BTPXI/square?utm_term=florida+booster+seat+laws+2021 PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60edcf278e89d93564d35694/1626197799931/strength_and_conditioning_exercises_for_runners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ed7994bc9b4721000da79c/1626175892850/zuwexunexowamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60f5ff4636a84b0394e471c1/1626734407006/silolajakedoroji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e7f28c5eabb22f35dba12e/1625813644931/how_to_get_your_voice_deep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60f741eb71ab5128a2b217e3/1626817003998/zowijataw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f740a6ff748a72f15ee274/1626816678862/kermit_the_frog_drawing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ec90c380388a1034d825c8/1626116291416/33353789866.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_off0000dd76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD76 16496 bytes
SHA-256: 799fcce7f1b42a1cd4036496af88f0ac770430a38d95e4c527d45bd94717289e
font_01_sfnt_off00010833.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10833 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001204a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204A 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 5c4f3121fc1c57d835b52fc1739f691e7cd18d61c7553089bb0203a7be564a44