Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d9155559e99bbd42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.5 KB Created: 2021-07-19 03:09:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 8d524793852e2f44a21244239793501c SHA-1: d1c2a4152ebe597e833fefead9a3bc04426657db SHA-256: d9155559e99bbd42457bf0d5dc0b1fe483405c4d833fa32f0f215544dd31d892
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains heuristics indicating it is a phishing lure, specifically using an image to redirect users to a download link. The embedded URL, while marked as benign, is part of the phishing mechanism. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support the malicious nature of the file, classifying it as a phishing trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7703

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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/rCno-htTzZk/square?utm_term=one+mobile+apk PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ec92cc45711547b6a77afa/1626116812797/life_span_of_rbc_and_wbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ec7cc472e2584f24629af8/1626111172522/chemical_engineering_basics_for_interview.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60f36e952be78d52659cf18f/1626566293721/pefuvuvuzawanizisofigilub.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_off0000ccc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCCC7 10304 bytes
SHA-256: d43024b706ef5fb8dcc168384158f4ab78d4e3976b92ce2e685baf5745d8dc00
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AB 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fbbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFBBD 15316 bytes
SHA-256: 5aff16b3ba0b44b2e82f299ccb1aab4702246989853de18a47c66fe02dd77332