Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3c512a5983f7724…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-07-15 17:42:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: a3c7d754a546a42d849315172b41c23e SHA-1: 059a7c056c9a224e222da214d87665bcf869e7b1 SHA-256: b3c512a5983f77245a26990f016f422470592e65d2334dd34d12dfa7d02cf018
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded URI and a heuristic firing for a PDF SEO UTM redirector link, indicating a phishing lure. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature. The primary attack vector appears to be a phishing attempt disguised as a free download, leveraging a redirector to a potentially malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7703

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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/uzX87CUNjRg/square?utm_term=house+construction+excel+sheet PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60edc6c1f6d8087912bc09fe/1626195649637/82871900100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60eff111fdf156014349ca4e/1626337553794/energy_sources_worksheet_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ee1f42f72ce0266e0d93ed/1626218306250/noxitevurigemegimexulusa.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_off0000c660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC660 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE77 10356 bytes
SHA-256: 63b3edeaa3c73626196c28ed1650a5ab86b757a6dc41b1e1d4012f2790f4fcea
font_02_sfnt_off0000f5c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF5C4 15236 bytes
SHA-256: 4f3b6ce60104764f47ee5537e2f82598056f2380aa0c2fb9135560f5bb6eda57