Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c1f7db2b1c124f16…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 17:24:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: d632ce0baff1b42e5c81f1f3f9d21f6a SHA-1: 35efcd6fc4886d2d883fcaad77e46b0fb1655256 SHA-256: c1f7db2b1c124f16f76d68370af9546e1892217c1aaadfd7cf60958ed96c18f4
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. The presence of a PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic indicates the document is designed to redirect users to a phishing site, likely for credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8907

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/IdU8rIDf9lQ/square?utm_term=all+saints+day+and+halloween PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e8617ab8a4026937275f03/1625842042182/25981303348.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e8b46a299fea38d986cb02/1625863274297/gedumonu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e90f5f320dbd0de28069e0/1625886559798/94496536972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e8f84b2c5c2f6215c75023/1625880651962/quick_easy_weekday_meals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e7ba815c13cc4fede932db/1625799297164/english_for_banking_and_finance_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e906bcdc37083541b7a556/1625884348878/94207134362.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_off0000c325.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC325 16180 bytes
SHA-256: d551b60bc7a5a10113b388bddfa2f472bdce0c4bfb22c804f599b703cbff4e59
font_01_sfnt_off0000ed17.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED17 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001052e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1052E 10424 bytes
SHA-256: 13595c5e268adfd766ec72b512bc8d0302a6afeddb3a2eacf722cc5a1f3910b6