Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43a5eea7816acd25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2021-03-09 22:19:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4a37269c09c620fa802a1a6aa5a34d87 SHA-1: 050b4a7b1213eebfc1b27a9705d21a1f67e40e95 SHA-256: 43a5eea7816acd25e1982ce346b9e4c74abc70724036e02484680ae7e42cb409
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' heuristic suggests it's an image-based document designed to trick users into clicking an external link, likely for a phishing scam or to download a second-stage payload. The presence of numerous external links, including one to 'gimoguvi.ru', reinforces this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8781

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-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 61 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.
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