Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9a0729465f2077c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 21:56:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 58fc7183fd74960119ee40ac9f09df23 SHA-1: ebb0bc6272b93799c30bf03a5a35fa67ef13c892 SHA-256: c9a0729465f2077c237a53ebf9e077f1aaf933eab87afb2bdedbe554c574d216
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, with heuristics indicating it uses an image lure for a redirector link. The primary heuristic points to a phishing lure disguised as a free download. Although no executable scripts were found, the PDF structure and the presence of a redirector URL suggest an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6556

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/razvivatel/yapz/~3/0YvHz_IItD0/square?utm_term=toight+like+a+tiger PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ed2837c76d6b0ba00ad66e/1626155063580/legendary_duelist_white_dragon_abyss_card_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60ee887a114e6b7b7deae46d/1626245242316/the_robots_of_dawn_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60f10777008c226a9423ee84/1626408823767/office_extension.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_off0000cf7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCF7F 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 75560deb1802518e6cc16c4f0c700a82ef206a8503d4d71529bf37b25a2cd572
font_01_sfnt_off0000e66c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE66C 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE7E 17948 bytes
SHA-256: 7fddc97c560e56b7e827f803b3ff05625e150d5c0f57a73520903884018a2390