Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d67a0de97d66e3a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.2 KB Created: 2021-07-13 21:14:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 80f752999c703e4fae7124d1b1796665 SHA-1: 1c6cf8acd3ce3e3916e2cf1c35942b6a7db14c33 SHA-256: d67a0de97d66e3a8a1ac034d2441d39dd504bb77b017b1faeeb6f55638207235
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML classification and ClamAV, as malicious phishing content. The 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic indicates the presence of an image lure designed to redirect users to a phishing site, likely for credential harvesting. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of PDF exploits often involves embedded JavaScript for malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7788

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/~3/4Ji06Fp1PxY/square?utm_term=legal+cases+examples PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e93be02dabf27235554676/1625897952237/xikafisejobufamapapereb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e8ce9a6f0e2d629ec07cdc/1625869978595/the_delhi_sultanate_a_political_and_military_history.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ec7ab15f604029b990985b/1626110642277/how_to_write_a_dbq_in_45_minutes.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_off0000c601.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC601 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 2bdf3aa0fdbe21249ef92c81da52f8c0ddfde4562581c5ae0eded49548497cf8
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD1A 15660 bytes
SHA-256: 7090dd07cdce1a6a898776c4789ecec64593f87d1304fb5fb8275ab13088f7de
font_02_sfnt_off00010552.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10552 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1