Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43e94a8896fe6252…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.6 KB Created: 2021-06-23 16:00:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: ed20e649df5579b471524fb628761860 SHA-1: 74c025cf520c7def3f1d388a404880113cec110c SHA-256: 43e94a8896fe625210cf55579071d19697becc5b260f7ec05d94af64e1020191
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' signature. It contains an embedded URI pointing to a Google feed proxy, which is often used to obscure malicious links in phishing attacks. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of a phishing signature and an external URI suggests a phishing or credential harvesting attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.2651

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
  • 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=ki+rajanarayanan+stories+pdf PDF link annotation