Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bc9a2cefa473fbe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.5 KB Created: 2021-07-20 17:12:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c3602c4108dc3f054cdc6073f59e2e83 SHA-1: 04cd274fdf874587acb7dcc55774247aa8b682c0 SHA-256: 9bc9a2cefa473fbe9125ea0aa68dc22f8df033ff9f1b31bbbf2b9b74296e0c95
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 redirects to a suspicious domain, likely serving as a lure for users to download or interact with malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URI suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8790

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://coretry.ru/square?utm_term=jcheater+san+andreas+apk+download PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ee32e83753dc428c879809/1626223336171/sagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e79a4023621b4743e05e05/1625791040413/gizuxigelowewinitevesopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60f0819253310244143c064e/1626374546023/lotegati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ee8ea9aa539923b58ad1ec/1626246825885/class_10_sample_paper_2021_english_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f41486731d8c7c6f0440d4/1626608774364/pidirokozawiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e84a0a2ea2332a69c2cd5c/1625836042264/katrina_forrester_in_the_shadow_of_justice.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60f478c7689a653fd2a375fd/1626634439462/tuzolixosufixutotuzufof.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_off0000efee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFEE 18248 bytes
SHA-256: dd0830bff7184e6980948c980967ec3b5566434fb2d5468d27c5ff6eeb184227
font_01_sfnt_off00011d98.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D98 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000135af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135AF 10688 bytes
SHA-256: c76ae1ee437f1792826a19b26bcf626bae7e526d3db038e2f066ab2c3041d617