Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 579da6aaa6598723…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.5 KB Created: 2021-03-25 18:25:28 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 2287668f64044f28445be7f1e59d69fc SHA-1: 26327e01493b01b46149f2d964c9cff7d9feefd8 SHA-256: 579da6aaa65987239c18e5034e2202f3e7df8daa40b0e2b5c3b469bc4832b78a
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier as malicious. It contains numerous embedded URLs pointing to external domains, many of which are associated with link farms or disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be metadata from wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6346

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://golowaki.ru/strik?utm_term=five+steps+to+wellbeing PDF link annotation
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