Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b227654d440c35a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.9 KB Created: 2021-07-13 05:31:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: eb34eb2cb8112e3efad1497be49a75e2 SHA-1: 4ec77043be1cd4f10bf68d01ad650e92fa4bcd85 SHA-256: b227654d440c35a81ef08d5fe20892a305c29f619c773470f61dafd7e67012e9
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a lure for free downloads, utilizing an external URI for redirection. The ML classifier also flagged it as malicious. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading potentially malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.5764

Heuristics 4

  • 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/HbdJGeoIq_s/square?utm_term=semiconductor+physics+and+devices+4th+edition+solution+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e84d2dda5f466f286f3fb6/1625836845683/fuxipepibumukuzonamasilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ecf51ab8016c0d1ad10fe8/1626141978144/nosamilibat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60eceb37f8b4e244e4f7e16c/1626139448209/funny_quotes_by_famous_people.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60ec9de9651b7076defd1d18/1626119657818/uk_scanner_frequencies.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_off0000d130.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD130 11320 bytes
SHA-256: 2128b40f68639c38b8aac79383ca195d8bc4c11cfcd7ac378da4ee288a4fcb08
font_01_sfnt_off0000eba8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEBA8 17436 bytes
SHA-256: b25ede1b305c5c6b89711ea6200557a3f7ef7d269137b0b4128b3c2505ce4f62
font_02_sfnt_off00011969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11969 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1