Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d7f5ecf69199de36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.3 KB Created: 2021-07-13 03:55:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: fad28a6b3269032b95383d56fa22d91c SHA-1: e7c02c63bf8e8cfd708b3474ad6cb7a14807d8dd SHA-256: d7f5ecf69199de36629a4d37d464d67fc80c31e225b47e54671d14bc72e986f3
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, including a high-severity ML classifier and ClamAV detection. It utilizes an image lure linked to an SEO redirector, which is a common phishing tactic to disguise malicious links. The embedded URLs, while appearing benign, are part of a chain designed to lead the user to download potentially unwanted or malicious content, likely exploiting the user's interest in technical documents.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

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/~3/7R6buoffwiA/square?utm_term=mechatronics+problems+and+solutions+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ec81b554a52c186ce4c7ca/1626112437462/the_lateral_surface_area_of_cylinder_is.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e8ce3e8f67167615ad0abe/1625869886986/93121050843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e82d2b8592fe3a5894f005/1625828652099/how_to_put_capes_on_in_minecraft_pe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e8e7142dabf27235514d30/1625876244878/8111750767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60ec8aedef188817f7e22aae/1626114797500/typhoid_in_child_symptoms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e93db6b68d8f0f4bf93377/1625898423159/groundwater_is_a_nonrenewable_resource_because.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e8340180504e0a776d6001/1625830401973/panama_currency_in_spanish.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ecadf6ad57c8233657445a/1626123766824/89503584349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60eccc18f64979768eeaa472/1626131480786/simcity_5_tips_and_tricks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e8463685181504630bd5bc/1625835062571/in_afib_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e9017866be7e490f0e4d46/1625883000966/nalutiziri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ec91d91951226b8b8be938/1626116569242/time_to_the_quarter_hour_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60eca6c2e0914637f38e4d0f/1626121922263/48273072759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e948a766be7e490f10e413/1625901224056/the_fast_and_the_furious_hobbs__shaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec92b636ee212f66cfbd9b/1626116790926/charity_donation_drop_off.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_off0000e2de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE2DE 11120 bytes
SHA-256: cd6d3f943abdb68ce20edd58a2e89bb23ff74d4d6815cb1decb0e7e29ccf2de2
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC5C 16768 bytes
SHA-256: 5bbb6cd2dc4971d941a6c5d136b30dd12c618892965e673e297a8d7dcd4418de
font_02_sfnt_off00012835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12835 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1