Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb42328bcb16fe4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 20:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 58b2e5db1aae5a32f3380ed17935ec8e SHA-1: d444bdd72055bc740c7e462346720f11462bd239 SHA-256: bb42328bcb16fe4cde411443212524201ad7ae961ffeca340ae496be78e2e1fd
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-severity rule indicating an image lure linking to a free-download phishing redirector. The ML classifier also indicated a high probability of maliciousness. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the presence of external URIs suggest an attempt to lure users to a phishing site, likely for credential harvesting.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6359

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/gOBB6uaVNRA/square?utm_term=sembaruthi+serial+online+today PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60edcaf0c450ee47307cb0bf/1626196720289/jazomuwudusuladewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e959ba2a6f785f5836070e/1625905594613/kyat_is_the_currency_of.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e8a448a13ebd76269de6f1/1625859144662/incentive_publications_science_answer_key.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_off0000eca8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xECA8 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off000104bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104BF 10944 bytes
SHA-256: 6511117439fca10f8a9b936b1fbcaa0ce1d412efdda4b363dfff2aeaedd50056
font_02_sfnt_off00011de6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DE6 17300 bytes
SHA-256: ea65056c9227af630c7e2a6a56c44c23c6a4eff52b6c41868c1221a0b95d2bb9