Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 71299b0e345bd562…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2021-03-27 22:51:08 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 104283022b84a9704a1ded9561e50e7c SHA-1: 53a0ff9f19d6184172b1b5152774ae88812315a3 SHA-256: 71299b0e345bd562d2d9183c3376502faa9a917b1da0d7a05aa1f4a58e55d22c
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. It contains an image-based overlay and numerous external links, suggesting an attempt to redirect users to malicious websites or download further payloads. The presence of multiple PDF links, some with numeric slugs, indicates a potential SEO poisoning or link farm strategy to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7228

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-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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 50 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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