Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d8f857fb1626186…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 22:56:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 75eb63d4e78a2130df10603fd61e159e SHA-1: 4e6fc1ffb3fe1c7b24b19017c3ccd8a753a0cf29 SHA-256: 9d8f857fb16261862b4877481887535263bb05776576633735205c5ebfe85e64
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a phishing lure, specifically using an image to redirect users to a URL that appears to offer free downloads. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. The embedded URL `https://synerhu.ru/square?utm_term=psychiatric+nursing+practice+test+questions+with+answer+key+pdf` is the primary IOC, likely serving as a redirector to a malicious payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5959

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://synerhu.ru/square?utm_term=psychiatric+nursing+practice+test+questions+with+answer+key+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec92a411a746407a428830/1626116772347/kusemotazazaroni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e9332783ae0c490239b13a/1625895719905/mibidumes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ec813ec217102653d60272/1626112318407/all_about_capricorn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec82bae64ce5371634b970/1626112698425/12717472404.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_off0000f172.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF172 11392 bytes
SHA-256: c3cccc334c62e7f5fe40e79b5f8ca780911ea89601b843d2e81aa7f6f1d31c58
font_01_sfnt_off00010be6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BE6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000123f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x123F8 17128 bytes
SHA-256: 745a2cbd4834390cc3532848ff2202c6a042a24db1c8447f98c765c955c0d778