Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a03025d5bd9fe07b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 08:58:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5e9452bdf7cd7731bb9aad476ed9c23f SHA-1: 6807a6311ec682038b12f34cc9d7f83df5d4f2d0 SHA-256: a03025d5bd9fe07b37cc16b4dc65b1e05aa77c524a94e54675170526cbe51e71
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, specifically flagged as phishing. A heuristic identified an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, which is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution. The embedded URL, while benign according to reputation, is part of the lure mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7483

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/gOBB6uaVNRA/square?utm_term=what+is+geometry PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ee6eeb588fb5669517787f/1626238699147/46910687790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e8acd151359a2b5cfc0da7/1625861330078/40858242794.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e83ab4abf7595fb54d0df7/1625832117030/up_and_down_beat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e8ad5b261b7f2579ab8080/1625861468037/the_pursuit_of_happiness_discussion_questions_answers.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_off0000c54d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC54D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd5f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD5F 16228 bytes
SHA-256: 657f0243d3bb354d26a5b9a5fdb807cc21f0376c86e345d5042d7926f5839265
font_02_sfnt_off00010759.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10759 10512 bytes
SHA-256: 0154f880c0f023f4dd5ae020d11f91e90c34dff449371ff96e5457dabe824a43