Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbb0c85ef72c7901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.8 KB Created: 2021-07-12 22:03:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 0e39d57cb4639ff6d098214d319a7b55 SHA-1: ecd4700162ed9b37d76e2a320481998affc1136b SHA-256: dbb0c85ef72c7901c87c9ca0cd2a2bb3b17608e4ea60278299d0aff0d8c27b1f
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded URL that functions as an SEO redirector, commonly used for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically indicates a lure for free downloads, suggesting a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6583

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/~3/7R6buoffwiA/square?utm_term=big+toothy+grin PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e7e24a8f757b1ac451e876/1625809483108/another_word_for_streak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e8462d8d23a90293b188fc/1625835053077/interior_angles_of_a_polygon_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e7cd769ebc0053f315d9ae/1625804150927/basic_mechanical_engineering_questions_and_answers_for_interview.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_off0000b830.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB830 15952 bytes
SHA-256: 630a942b7ecc078d7a4b677dc314f75dff16d26021d92bf1261d407857092506
font_01_sfnt_off0000e158.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE158 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000f96f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF96F 10044 bytes
SHA-256: e7e54c724b34708b5f74fd95685e98d254e831216995383644479c3b3e3d91ec