Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2bb57030af6479f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2021-07-14 06:39:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 834740cbf5644f61fe81102d1d3e50c3 SHA-1: 8d877435800d7a397858fd48d17d52f3ec929d76 SHA-256: e2bb57030af6479f08471435577154093891719aa524e1ce4aa98d87be30477a
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file was detected as a malicious PDF by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of phishing lures. It contains embedded URLs that act as redirectors, likely intended to lead users to malicious sites under the guise of a free download. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7149

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/u8n3KCQdUYc/square?utm_term=separation+of+amino+acids+by+paper+chromatography+experiment+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ee06b024c32e4364b8af07/1626212016415/63241185987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ee54f92a4cda17625f8e25/1626232057617/26004654830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60e914802f3c4128e189c2ed/1625887872918/why_learning_abstractionism_art_styles_is_important.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_off0000c9a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9A5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000e1bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1BC 11452 bytes
SHA-256: 6e04adc70305ffb1bca2920c957194b4da6613c94477e6c5658a1698a9f7fc63
font_02_sfnt_off0000fc34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC34 16648 bytes
SHA-256: 5606b10c0ffcdc6a947a733abd5f9000ab629d03e728894a6b49727ada21d07b