Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb44bbf7d371e5c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-07-12 21:09:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2e23b0122196fc20e6aa09a2e6246b7a SHA-1: cb8298fad2542caea0af9394b55ba5a68076b92b SHA-256: fb44bbf7d371e5c9318abe8c104791dcdfb4dbd4f2e5cc3b1b30fc84c5023785
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, indicating a phishing attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically points to an image lure designed to redirect users to a phishing site via a Google feedproxy URL. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics suggest a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8028

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=can+you+go+to+uni+without+level+3 PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e79ad5d0799e4214bce28d/1625791190059/66082905725.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e93354fc46b1505828a71c/1625895764226/why_does_my_peace_lily_have_green_flowers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e9163392abcc18c4f58efe/1625888307423/46596285056.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_off0000c216.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC216 10688 bytes
SHA-256: 90412b215e1c28b91fcdd5cf0109ad66dd13231d1d9713914542f6046a21cde5
font_01_sfnt_off0000daa8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAA8 17048 bytes
SHA-256: 8236f08cc3acb57f1900d0d74fd57a1f995b14ca56c6ac87708c8977bbc25aa4
font_02_sfnt_off00010722.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10722 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1