Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c22d40504a290b7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 07:27:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: b0a689224ffba3b2769dc441e85244d3 SHA-1: a05e2eae9358c822b15ca17ec404ec1ff9d6bc42 SHA-256: c22d40504a290b7a7544b6b421d08c6f33af8725d660f7bd23172e2cd955b3aa
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including ML classification and ClamAV detection. The 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic indicates the document uses an image lure to redirect users to a phishing site. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing attempt, likely initiated via a spearphishing attachment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8028

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/eoPDrVzwpx0/square?utm_term=jared+leto+thirty+seconds PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60f4d0891d35070742300e1f/1626656906001/promise_of_blood_read_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ec937b7a6a16267649ea70/1626116987718/betopajika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60f08ef761eeee46ea2a1714/1626377976133/ups_shippers_letter_of_instruction.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_off0000c33f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC33F 10572 bytes
SHA-256: d6721a1ae082c04679fec6f92a11632f09dc460d6c84c2a21dde2c2e18cfe95e
font_01_sfnt_off0000db52.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB52 16660 bytes
SHA-256: 93371ff123480d4f9be85d63fa5e635e221958bcf530bbc108cb613c15414255
font_02_sfnt_off00010696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10696 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1