Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4908dc5a4e365960…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2021-04-06 04:50:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 7651a726d97e37e23235dadedb902677 SHA-1: 5ded2b6c05f3eb7cbc21b66fdd75326601343ddc SHA-256: 4908dc5a4e365960ada1581cfe58fa4ba90ed8d84c9e6216b04ef96509d639c0
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'World war z game multiplayer split screen' and 'wkhtmltopdf', potentially used as bait to attract users to click on the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7084

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
    URL https://maypoin.ru/strik?utm_term=world+war+z+game+multiplayer+split+screen PDF link annotation
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