Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb197b64a279cb4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.5 KB Created: 2021-07-15 22:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 9cd0bac5a8f35b977767cb7d685e09eb SHA-1: 44549cfea099b40bd9f2d2d8fc3e0c488381030e SHA-256: bb197b64a279cb4d6c25203ba174b401eb5370cdeff4d773b95720fd6d935288
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It contains an embedded URI pointing to a Google feedproxy URL, which in turn redirects to a PDF file hosted on squarespace.com. While the destination URLs are marked as benign, the overall structure and heuristic firings suggest an attempt to trick users into downloading potentially malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of the attack's execution phase.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8755

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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/v-xubMviL4Y/square?utm_term=anatomy+and+physiology+12th+edition+pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e94265defa333328ab8233/1625899621649/total_relative_frequency_table.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e92bbc27127e680416560c/1625893821164/groin_muscle_location.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ee64a85f7927514e3fc721/1626236073005/14538060335.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f055c9baa9e46167490eac/1626363337508/table_tennis_rules_2020.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f0036738a0fc3ca968b0ff/1626342247824/dodexexilesakemasebanaw.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e7fd6845e16b3be7eb2780/1625816424188/batch_file_wait_for_command_to_finish_before_next.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e8258695719b356d95d9e2/1625826694628/38964110217.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cf32.bin
74c890ae6d93edc2ffa08f2c421bc4a9862e04fde567e6433229a495385492a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF32 11112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e8de.bin
7a9686fbbe07f0b8023e25c9c6a768fc31f60c6c2a095250923ac879b633c327
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE8DE 17112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001159b.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1159B 16792 bytes