Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 384f574a49ca967a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

939.1 KB Created: 2021-03-18 18:43:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-07-07
MD5: b8add8251ab56a54be56a180d4b6cd9f SHA-1: 81e93ed34b5dd0bd6daa640ebe23ef4d728ce10b SHA-256: 384f574a49ca967a5142c21a0219e76dda3573ec907a943d21df3568f774fdc2
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a known malicious infrastructure, disguised as a free download for a textbook. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0044

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/award?keyword=biochemistry+vasudevan+pdf+free+download In PDF document text