Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4576f12fb10a8374…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2021-03-20 09:32:01 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 15fe6537629876d8a0cbd8ed67cae300 SHA-1: 2c9784c3eb5e1698f2954dc707666d8a5e317e37 SHA-256: 4576f12fb10a8374eef8eb74ebd3a533f4c62d964685f02dde602cbd71fc2dc0
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to other PDF files, suggesting a link farm or a method to distribute further malicious content. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of external links, and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' confirms malicious intent. The embedded URL 'https://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=acharya+prashant+books+pdf+download' is likely a lure to disguise the malicious nature of the document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7702

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=acharya+prashant+books+pdf+download
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