Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 283930c3145dc84f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2021-03-12 13:16:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 66eee65978baa0b98f9627c14b07acf3 SHA-1: 23927609f1c424a29f4ef3a56053b918f8ea6aaf SHA-256: 283930c3145dc84f88cb362a0e034ef7b11b561625396cd0e20d06719c21d6f0
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF is identified as an image-only lure, typical for phishing campaigns. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely serving as a dropper or redirector to a phishing site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8132

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
  • 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 44 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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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