Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdeb005a646f0152…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-07-19 10:49:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2e9790423e6da91078762a76902096e9 SHA-1: 25d5fdfd7c487e08b005db5b4204fec3b754a4ee SHA-256: cdeb005a646f01528becea5af4116a9021ec9b3cfa2933caf5ce1603ca59ffc3
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan and ML classifiers indicated maliciousness. Heuristics identified an external URI and an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, suggesting a phishing attempt disguised as a free download. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of malicious intent.

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/sq/ugae/~3/eoPDrVzwpx0/square?utm_term=barium+swallow+esophageal+stricture PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60f412597f94c710fbccd08a/1626608217429/fafisixuxex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60f4f66fbb7e64222d0bdac3/1626666608549/85435965323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60ee0958fb3cc800db516f7d/1626212696766/a_global_history_of_architecture_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60f435cd22602c08caf8419b/1626617293281/96935818294.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_off0000c6d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC6D0 10956 bytes
SHA-256: 7b5e36bbaaacf2c68081ee20b9f9f30d5f25016707ed72a90a3c9df5424c568d
font_01_sfnt_off0000e058.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE058 16644 bytes
SHA-256: 24a84b88f8d12e0e51bc99e54734934d50f30e7a20727f8c3543f24a7f37298e
font_02_sfnt_off00010bbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10BBB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1