PDF malware analysis — malicious · 800975d165a09609

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-12-25 01:23:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05

MD5: 76f4c461c75b86d31b4a73b9740b27c8 SHA-1: 305978688036fb528d8cba3f8defccd5fb1b0689 SHA-256: 800975d165a096093d955af5816bb05852420c8dfc2492ca1fe5bc4e4077e42f

212 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It employs an image-only lure, typical of phishing, with a clickable link disguised as a 'Notarized authorization/ signature form'. The embedded URL, https://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=notarized+authorization%252F+signature+form, is flagged as a known malicious redirector, indicating it likely leads to a phishing page or a payload download. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7869

Heuristics 5

ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK

PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK

PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
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 35 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
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://traffmen.ru/aws?utm_term=notarized+authorization%252F+signature+form In PDF document text

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