Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 988eeaad0356939a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-07-14 00:09:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a7e9986c7eb1479082823bc99d379e59 SHA-1: 8d599b1652db0e949956d4a2f5af14e33672231f SHA-256: 988eeaad0356939a80c639cb70d0e5a6e4df36d293b508f7f6461c67890e904a
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains an embedded URL that functions as a redirector, likely leading to a malicious site. The presence of PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the lure is designed for phishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8028

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/~3/5JeRQhMeIYg/square?utm_term=been+awhile+since PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ed93cadfc7900eec317a5a/1626182602935/how_cloud_server_works.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60edb396573bc4731c8b8265/1626190742183/4115712487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ee00eef6d8087912c25c25/1626210542989/28807145297.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_off0000c3c3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3C3 17868 bytes
SHA-256: 5726a9a88e514ded860536227b0ddcf914b2fcdeb23f441ce650ef7cb6b77b18
font_01_sfnt_off0000f026.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF026 10148 bytes
SHA-256: 59f25aacb0d0a65291d95876568bc7bb5832f9d5d0820000fc2321e1dc8cec2f
font_02_sfnt_off000106cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106CD 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1