Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8abf3196ba70518…

MALICIOUS

PDF

160.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 19:06:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 791673b5da3ceeae1226537177071ae8 SHA-1: ad23c93d9c58eeb1a5b4a762479d886f6acf901c SHA-256: d8abf3196ba7051801c135ff1b77ebd2bee58c95a2aade8ec9b58bc0f7051dec
146 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure, specifically impersonating Apple. It directs users to a URL that is part of an SEO redirector chain, likely intended to lead to a malicious download or phishing page. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1573

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/razvivatel/yapz/~3/UZrB20b2Dcg/square?utm_term=dialogue+in+library.
  • 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/UZrB20b2Dcg/square?utm_term=dialogue+in+library PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60f0aa4a9a456f4cc40a5ed7/1626384970815/c_convert_char_to_int.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60ec8380ad4a1a22a3e757b7/1626112896723/download_minecraft_java_edition_for_android_for_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ee47b6f6c772366d2ec99a/1626228662340/meaning_of_farthest_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60edd55730d23a7550625ed2/1626199383645/66992484633.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60f1b8306d209c572445e37d/1626454064482/units_ones_tens_hundreds_chart.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001f108.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F108 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0002091f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2091F 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 8a39c3d87d996bf34656f7e846e69e14ff6da0f7f6449541965f7dce2eecca58
font_02_sfnt_off000220a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x220A2 19748 bytes
SHA-256: eb456328f0960e03a3d04274d06bd9640315be8243691b70a2f37cfb75460fe6
font_03_sfnt_off00023e7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x23E7B 20748 bytes
SHA-256: 0d820e6fe22e3f9e7b95dfa329bc997f9f88cb0b466547aee7c51bcff7fd685c