Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6d88ab43f96e3eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.7 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: f86f15b4f0b286035fdf45bbddbaf4d3 SHA-1: d25c6ac2d0903434197d902db3439c8b175e7dd8 SHA-256: b6d88ab43f96e3eb9b232ce94e1591a695e73d8b8deaedbc36901bacb07440b8
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 attempt. The PDF contains an embedded URI that acts as a redirector, likely leading to a phishing site. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings suggest it's designed to trick users into clicking malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6911

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/razvivatel/yapz/~3/7R6buoffwiA/square?utm_term=how+to+make+your+freckles+more+noticeable PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ee0e162485902f3e6f7c90/1626213910231/portraiture_by_angel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60e867fd716a8a49644340d0/1625843709590/nomenclature_review_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60edf96e895aae42f65d1924/1626208623018/double_y_graph.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ede32b6f118478735c92f1/1626202923941/tadubikoperumaroxupude.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_off0000c64a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC64A 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000de5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE5C 16244 bytes
SHA-256: ce00304421f340c76ac99af0e3af9fa52694d8f57a8e1e4ab813c6cdf0a0a6da
font_02_sfnt_off00010779.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10779 11020 bytes
SHA-256: e1f8eea1e2c0caf59d75d366613678c3677040e8edb6c24b5d4c5f305d1e9aa9