Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ba4547e2c17b656…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-07-14 05:33:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 2bb62e1384cfbb5ea647a7f1f791d636 SHA-1: 755862112e0458be31cad5e22306202925e752c0 SHA-256: 9ba4547e2c17b656e0e446308dc076536141f8d71a0470b3056eca36f2787db7
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers also indicated maliciousness. Heuristics identified an external URI and an SEO redirector link, suggesting a phishing lure. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of a redirector URL points to a phishing attack pattern, likely initiated via spearphishing.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6556

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/~3/1LSSs5qy-i4/square?utm_term=best+asian+marinade+for+salmon PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec909044349d7bb06d5f63/1626116240712/82435163365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ee396e2af4c01978fc9f1d/1626225006754/gukosafakipilokekugita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ee1bafdb6052518ec3d765/1626217391466/ooh_sometimes_i_get_a_feeling_yeah.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_off0000d73a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD73A 17000 bytes
SHA-256: 40d7fca309bafc4c2c1e893dd10a480020809f364d29b0200f6e4360f49df3cc
font_01_sfnt_off00010392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10392 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00011ba9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BA9 10568 bytes
SHA-256: f1f6a277bc6e910a3d0fd7b99449f02615ec2331f52f7009e47c06e90f027f9a