Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b751010bf8b62f74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 00:36:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 177674bc8fffbf2e208cde22616a784f SHA-1: 73feb697c71a3fb9156946da08adf7d1b62919d9 SHA-256: b751010bf8b62f746d6a5e7e7d937f8a2decc3fc3534095522a680633de15350
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. The heuristic PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates an image lure pointing to a redirector URL, likely for phishing purposes. Although no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6187

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/RVI1sXQGPkU/square?utm_term=is+radium+a+metal+nonmetal+or+metalloid PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e8ee1d12fb7d0b2790e9f2/1625878045825/6_babies_born_at_once.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e809c3dbb92d34f5b08b92/1625819587247/image_rectification_in_remote_sensing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e8101b4454ab0ddd87f750/1625821211692/90s_cafeteria_food.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_off00011012.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11012 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012829.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12829 10460 bytes
SHA-256: fe744fc39d51b48f589dc3daf4ee8eafaab553b761a4e8d8539790c0de04c467
font_02_sfnt_off00013fd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13FD7 17860 bytes
SHA-256: e0741a5c099c3cf384ea7855d9df1a01742d3c41c227c9e014053338f75c0f5d