Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a07ba191d6393611…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2021-07-21 00:37:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 06634b45984cc7e97fd667cfe87f2b16 SHA-1: bf9fb6a96fd5a6c7de615b5b89938e2e520faa5e SHA-256: a07ba191d6393611183eb6d8b8934b53adffbb57d26f39aed251bd7f3c8fc3a9
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. A high-severity heuristic identified an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, suggesting a phishing attempt. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics point towards a phishing lure designed to redirect users to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6030

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/razvivatel/yapz/~3/v-xubMviL4Y/square?utm_term=the+angle+of+elevation+of+a+jet+plane+from+a+point+p PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60f06c0f93de1c7b8a0ac12d/1626369039890/bible_verse_about_eating_pork_new_testament.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e79d52bab062161334d722/1625791826621/kuxubawamoxizuzij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60edf260930ff80baa0e2d37/1626206816497/the_complete_guide_to_market_breadth_indicators_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f0ac4be522e441027e110c/1626385483264/32383894743.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_off0000b1c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1C9 16536 bytes
SHA-256: 889b43059fd450985eb1d93e2de2c122e720f813f7eac6e4b543db5d02cef03a
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD44 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f55b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF55B 10796 bytes
SHA-256: 260e721248de1cf931ba692174eea9cd4f1668418ad052e9e5037f5336f4c503