Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6add176a33e5cdad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2021-03-17 21:16:51 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3fa2df4ce154b2bb4f88ad93d8f095d3 SHA-1: 73aeaf35b783958e8926247b2d64558e472fe27e SHA-256: 6add176a33e5cdad7be7d8cb0958e61863a51526b550a9db94688de7610c855b
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure due to its small size and image-based content. It contains multiple external links, with one prominent URL pointing to a suspicious domain, suggesting an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site or download further content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of external links and the overall structure indicate a likely phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7882

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • Image-only document with action trigger (screenshot lure) medium PDF_IMAGE_LURE
    PDF has 1 image(s), only 0 text block(s), carries a click-outward action, and is only 39 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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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