Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b091f1ef77ac8b83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.6 KB Created: 2021-07-12 21:03:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: f50c91e06499f77e18e42900be118d20 SHA-1: aa11abbc3b91037dd08c8bc64615b005a0928e6b SHA-256: b091f1ef77ac8b831807432a273a56987b07d3b05aea7d11389467eed9ff126d
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ClamAV and an ML classifier, as malicious. The 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic indicates the presence of an image lure pointing to a redirector URL, commonly used in phishing campaigns to disguise the final destination. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the PDF and the detected heuristics suggest it's designed to trick the user into navigating to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9988

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/jEScUJLm1bs/square?utm_term=how+fast+can+you+get+pregnant PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e8724dafb4337c48348735/1625846350202/things_that_rhyme_with_matter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e7b6944aaab0286a88e67d/1625798292754/1321978616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e91560085b1c120f977f60/1625888096634/consistent_in_a_sentence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e92ca13ba7d954d546932c/1625894050009/lodidak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e8e5a98915684aa539ebc9/1625875882017/jegov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60ec7a6a7e5cd11affcc2e92/1626110570154/poperesapakifazarezafojud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ec7b4fad4a1a22a3e693d1/1626110799599/meaning_of_indend.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e916802f3c4128e189dbc7/1625888384498/the_visitor_fortnite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e932da3b7e7c633450dd5d/1625895642139/weight_loss_tips_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e7f44e48fdc2594041c7e3/1625814094512/15717351613.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60ec73245f604029b98fd713/1626108708245/a_woman_without_her_man_is_nothing_punctuate_this_sentence.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e7f71e4d2175279d148ab0/1625814814278/kosoxebuketadukiw.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_off0000d4b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD4B3 16900 bytes
SHA-256: 692bff9c6a313c6546a467e232261135bc4555add5bdc35f5daf18e6ce5335ca
font_01_sfnt_off000100dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100DC 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000118f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x118F3 10808 bytes
SHA-256: a77cf4612eccdf23ff1413441fce6a7fd2288b03bb20fba66833cf2c672ef4ba