Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1cf6dd34aad1203…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.7 KB Created: 2021-07-13 15:56:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 5a0caef6b30791bf01e69d798e23c4e4 SHA-1: 31287e522eb29a9f02a1860e31679aac4c9d16aa SHA-256: c1cf6dd34aad12032e3408cdd62848ce460e27b568ac1f84b9a22bc7af17dc21
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains an embedded URL that functions as an SEO redirector, luring users to a phishing site. The presence of PDF-specific heuristics and embedded font streams suggests the document is designed to exploit PDF vulnerabilities or deliver malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9511

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://chcial.ru/square?utm_term=how+to+make+nose+piercing+cleaner PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e81b3aafd06e4982ece458/1625824058344/80544633013.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ed8bcf5eed834fcc38095f/1626180559916/34836670172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60eca359f6fc466b5bf63985/1626121050388/preparation_for_the_final_crisis_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ed88fb39532c3941c20870/1626179835435/latest_on_the_dow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e8d271123eaa19f8fcd7e3/1625870961147/antidepressant_drugs_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ed8b31bc9b4721000ead47/1626180402059/winchester_model_67_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ed25b3bc9b47210009edba/1626154419485/options_trading_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60ed15bfbde79631d33b7bd0/1626150335379/nanijusoviroferunogawedof.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_off0000d6b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6B8 16512 bytes
SHA-256: efa90c6a860b2015b27314731b6f8376e47699b345d0b336ca962908bd439116
font_01_sfnt_off00010194.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10194 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 5353861c3d955585fc3f60416c816f86fa46996cd902f76a6019e932b9047de9
font_02_sfnt_off00011aca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11ACA 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1