Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee5803cef58d9a99…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.6 KB Created: 2021-07-14 04:11:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 18d3a8f093e977975fa69cb537eb69d3 SHA-1: b3754baf5de3892c203e0dd23d1d55fabed9f50d SHA-256: ee5803cef58d9a99ef8356856b33a6a79e7bdc9deb0e027313ca8d60e32a8a1c
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was detected as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains a heuristic indicating it's an image lure linking to an SEO redirector, commonly used for phishing or free-download scams. The embedded URLs, while marked as benign, are part of the redirection chain. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure suggests a phishing attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7691

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/HbdJGeoIq_s/square?utm_term=use+a+triple+integral+to+find+the+volume+of+the+solid+enclosed+by+the+paraboloids PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60edbc1c738e87681cd4018d/1626192924465/53318405840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60edaf8e5dd1eb1c29086505/1626189710385/muvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec7f11c268f363b086505c/1626111761891/gogisunakukubarozumuwibe.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_off0000c5dc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5DC 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 4cc107db7a2080fc768f70a0c33ba7096a654a3c8a65bb82cbfd9fcd1da2cf19
font_01_sfnt_off0000f2c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2C6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010add.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10ADD 11492 bytes
SHA-256: d3caacab3db7fba052d4b1ffc7782594c93d65e89267421d10aa6f736ac1e4fd