Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0770ff3e31a007c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-12-23 16:50:37 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 44c1845be072d1494118a0bce5a93725 SHA-1: f9fafc19a39202d9ac29d027224d5c33ddd98586 SHA-256: 0770ff3e31a007c1f475596a485fcd4ae449cac02261f82b44ed4f8ff3538916
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure due to its image-only nature and embedded clickable link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Auckland city council building consent forms', suggesting a pretext for the phishing attempt. The embedded URL likely leads to a malicious payload or phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6525

Heuristics 5

  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • 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-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 41 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://traffnew.ru/aws?utm_term=auckland+city+council+building+consent+forms
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