Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2684506283202b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-07-16 08:58:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 3df669bc23e5f7962fea205d8bbe34e5 SHA-1: 2ee88fa352e624e0ae981f3605793d94c02affbb SHA-256: b2684506283202b9ce192f5515c1067a90e8a6f01aab1e9e7e2854d92a097456
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. A heuristic identified an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, which is a common tactic for phishing campaigns. The embedded URL points to a redirector that likely leads to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6359

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/-7-cX3opz_8/square?utm_term=spreadsheet+modeling+for+business+decisions PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ec890ac8b0d544b6d82e58/1626114314976/ser_in_the_conditional.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60ee49aa8e3fff2bd3c1711c/1626229163079/all_our_yesterdays.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60edc1bb4485e42169feb861/1626194363532/98642522593.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_off0000e690.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE690 11380 bytes
SHA-256: 9af79559411f71234d2e333e052b12d027a86f1dfebc8dc17fb24e858bb8237b
font_01_sfnt_off000100b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100B6 17148 bytes
SHA-256: 17b3b2b4e0d10bcf1aab361e5c70e3ae1c72382bcd7575c03ef56ac14dd20145
font_02_sfnt_off00012d76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12D76 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1