Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c71e240681ee4511…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.9 KB Created: 2021-07-15 23:14:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: dbe14bd641b5a50f43c6d8847135ae03 SHA-1: c4131a2e7cd68150af35245fd6edc0f1e38f8928 SHA-256: c71e240681ee4511f62c4c50f9bf680363b9b603840d9b4d1bac5afb4459f7cb
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. The presence of an external URI and an SEO redirector link suggests a phishing attempt to trick users into downloading software. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs point towards a common phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7287

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/r_nBws6J8g8/square?utm_term=download+games+euro+truck+simulator+2+android PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60e898444471185a9cdc17e1/1625856068623/how_long_does_it_take_for_slider_turtle_eggs_to_hatch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ed8f0b02ab3a569c46193e/1626181387795/the_boondocks_episode_1_online_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60f07c0ebe875f2301084f14/1626373135240/recover_crashed_excel_file.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_off0000ca27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCA27 17516 bytes
SHA-256: 5b2f67067f4e434d8b8ad5021c21a4294ad13ba385a509dbd848973fafc8ecbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000f815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF815 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001102c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1102C 11112 bytes
SHA-256: 5ecd5fc7cfd799fbede54a9f7a8943ebe5e3e925c1740d1f6fe63166b3c8b277