Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc931ab988d27d8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-12 20:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 8ffc287065794135a5482d1a5195f9f6 SHA-1: 3f4c0c0bf25da812909726f4226685f9384547b2 SHA-256: cc931ab988d27d8bd4509563d56b70ff1e6ad23bf026e82b07e374e89f329eb3
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. A high-severity heuristic identified an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, which is a common phishing technique. The embedded URL points to a redirector that likely leads to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7483

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/~3/1LSSs5qy-i4/square?utm_term=can+bearded+dragons+have+hard+boiled+eggs PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ec76fe8bb04542cee32cac/1626109694183/81777082532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e7fe8023621b4743e54f42/1625816704923/aashiqui_2_video_song_hd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e8d88eaa915d5f299c97bf/1625872526770/sonewolodupozorinabijelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e87df7f7e8b60c650941d3/1625849335932/tds_on_purchase_of_immovable_property.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_off0000cbdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBDC 10668 bytes
SHA-256: c2572e4bc6178cf000f4b5c733b486f277c033e5b8710032b5e51d4473b73809
font_01_sfnt_off0000e406.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE406 16396 bytes
SHA-256: 1cd604896f8768510594ef4a3ae2fc947a7b90152198229b2155fae269ee31c0
font_02_sfnt_off00010e7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E7E 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1