Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c8b6638e3e49b95…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2021-04-03 04:44:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-27
MD5: 71d94b6c82a3712944c1b20392bee898 SHA-1: d92f2357b133c7e252a5154b8387dc6762a322cc SHA-256: 1c8b6638e3e49b95fa8b1922981dbba6b23d9f98a4c85c7cd3f4bab356204604
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' and the presence of embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to phishing sites or download further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is indicative of a malicious campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.4770

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
  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.
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