Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d282a7d1245fd15f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:04:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: c3ec786d27a3b9d43a5264b2484288c8 SHA-1: 8e0b6e3a693b1c0eda5623d19faf04d8a74684ca SHA-256: d282a7d1245fd15fc899185cb53c081f2c1d47a2aa6bd2b6788e84e26f3fd642
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, utilizing an external URI that functions as a redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. Although no scripts were extracted, the presence of a redirector URL suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7882

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/jEScUJLm1bs/square?utm_term=love+by+chance+2+ep+8 PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60ec86db3a853d606aece7a5/1626113755726/buvis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e8c0a63be7a25fda2c3376/1625866406871/zozaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60ec94297a6a16267649fc95/1626117161510/to_wind_up_a_toy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60edc7f39779423221dd6ee4/1626195955072/12.5_hp_to_kw.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_off0000c2eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2EB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000db02.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB02 10572 bytes
SHA-256: 1f7807a42a306ef575657af38bee90a024e6a8690170560129cd9d8a56226f96
font_02_sfnt_off0000f2ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2ED 16016 bytes
SHA-256: 64ba0ad5876881763648cfccfffef5556452f424525478972186bb96c426a803