Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08df8f974e81c927…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.8 KB Created: 2021-06-13 21:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: feb05561e17162343a213e4ec9118350 SHA-1: 58873daaf51fe9b73cab6826712dbc360e8eda3d SHA-256: 08df8f974e81c927fe9bd768f751087169e011061f1436ed8bea0c718c6f7a5f
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a high-confidence heuristic indicating it is a phishing lure, specifically designed to trick users into clicking a link for free downloads. The embedded URL, 'https://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+big+bang+theory+season+download', is presented as a download link for 'The Big Bang Theory' to entice users. This pattern is consistent with phishing attacks that use fake content to deliver malicious payloads or redirect to further malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6915

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://smidgel.ru/uplcv?utm_term=the+big+bang+theory+season+download PDF link annotation