Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9f0698c97594401…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.8 KB Created: 2021-07-13 04:40:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: fe853132bb968ed9fea3542c1b01d7c5 SHA-1: 89f32795e19820d5ff2e43a78bae28e5762d1d6d SHA-256: a9f0698c975944010f34609095959104e35a495ece14f8219cc87c29d3c525b9
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, specifically using an image to redirect the user to an external URL. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and URL redirection suggest an attempt to trick the user into visiting a malicious site, likely for credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7703

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/CHqDoFjlE84/square?utm_term=graphic+organizer+cause+and+effect+with+example PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ecb677b525121650f37681/1626125943752/cool_words_beginning_with_w.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60ec818a3a853d606aec4ee2/1626112394964/staffing_class_12_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ecba99224c4351f8f8b7c6/1626127001911/17179898611.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_off0000c75a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC75A 15936 bytes
SHA-256: c0fc0cf3b7163b3f9c70d89e462af1eae6d8be1eae0d1538ebabbf2cb3c2bd46
font_01_sfnt_off0000f06a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF06A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10881 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 3cc2324126ff2beecdc33c81e1cc9a4a78f13a0ecf6162175368be5872cbb365