Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 584856d063008cc5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.4 KB Created: 2021-04-23 07:03:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: b9430acb4c106a0e3cd9951ddcaec18f SHA-1: bf15d16ebf9eb4fa6f7fa30bf424817da8558a51 SHA-256: 584856d063008cc58e263825e292fb800c55406ef2d086b5c94ca8afed7514cc
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs disguised as content related to game runewords, functioning as a link farm. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic and the ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS score indicate a high likelihood of malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and numerous unknown URLs suggest it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6272

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.
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    • https://www.jwico.com/sites/default/files/webform/41164207556.pdfIn PDF document text
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