Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f52942ff91a325bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.1 KB Created: 2021-07-12 22:11:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-25
MD5: 780dc18643118349fb79a81c3082cb0a SHA-1: 2a9882afc9e6e7ba7976e2f20f8b904ef6c92977 SHA-256: f52942ff91a325bcb7a56abe86807d8961ec518871df8ff657efd59d6bbacfc8
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a high-severity heuristic indicating it is a phishing lure, redirecting users to a suspicious URL. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. The embedded URL is likely part of a phishing campaign aiming to trick users into downloading malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6359

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://queure.ru/square?utm_term=every+word+in+the+english+dictionary PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e9110cb630645a0ef6cc36/1625886988318/the_art_of_trading_refined_ref_wayne_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e8e287c22c005c93356d93/1625875079825/vewemirefumijegux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e8ec9566be7e490f0d2416/1625877653412/walking_with_beasts_2.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_off0000fe59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE59 10896 bytes
SHA-256: 5de1c10c59d64e145b5bf2d4aa8b3e17fff3f9b52d0def306edb76738d66d376
font_01_sfnt_off0001175d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1175D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012f6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12F6F 17348 bytes
SHA-256: ecb7c15afe75caaef008e42088ea6a60605a0567394a5566911bbe2517e98ae0