Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e90ded844a43359…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2021-05-06 22:22:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: 06424a74acd18b63a6224b80426676fd SHA-1: 821634f8b924f098d77fc87897596daec5c2dfc7 SHA-256: 4e90ded844a433592dbfc3c390edd4c00f6197575773012240ac49b04ae37ffb
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 URL that is marked as unknown, suggesting a potential phishing or malicious download attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'The global competitiveness report 2018-19' and 'wkhtmltopdf', which could be used as a lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.2345

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://wentworthre.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7c In PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=the+global+competitiveness+report+2018-+19PDF link annotation

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