Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c96dadb055bfba86…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.2 KB Created: 2021-07-17 04:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3)
MD5: 6daf1679add68cb724b81ea538ecd925 SHA-1: bc001b2fedb29972ba76388a9f12f8f5b8271cd4 SHA-256: c96dadb055bfba86518f6054df45ac81a6db6b62b8bb7bc283635e7eb459a11f
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including a critical ClamAV detection and an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. The presence of embedded URLs, despite some being marked as benign, suggests a potential phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The PDF structure and the nature of the heuristics point towards exploitation of a PDF vulnerability to execute a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9906

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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/~3/5JeRQhMeIYg/square?utm_term=easy+hairstyles+for+toddlers+with+thin+hair
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e9461037cb904475611994/1625900560864/essential_thrombocythemia_definition.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e92eb3b673687559683dc1/1625894579525/25_scrum_master_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f11d1db238236d23329552/1626414366010/a_rave_party.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e90777dc37083541b7bc38/1625884535248/thank_you_jesus_for_the_cross.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e7aa811d61f435cef544a5/1625795201346/29610120965.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f22e48890fa5305bdb7c32/1626484296652/endeavour_medical_guide.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60f0d5177c30ad68c63a6ec6/1626395927473/59787236846.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60f2029968d14b0c9c2c9877/1626473113537/walenixi.pdf
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e8ed2a66be7e490f0d2fa5/1625877802096/first_aid_qa_for_the_usmle_step_1_fourth_edition.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d724.bin
9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD724 16792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ef36.bin
fdd49e8a244b4d2d1f03857f4e4aabad9c4839067461983edfaa8d9478e16517
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF36 17180 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011bfd.bin
8b87dc983f0646e0a9f6ec07495a21411fc2f885be73b6815d04503c68e256df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11BFD 10632 bytes