Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8681c4dd65cb44a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2021-03-09 11:32:13 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-21
MD5: a2c285578d5f51d168451b5ecf19994b SHA-1: a20e16fbe38e97eb52442cf72357317b5e001bd5 SHA-256: 8681c4dd65cb44a4a5dffd75d881cfd15b0192cc5235581b6f772bb1dba0a068
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting, and is flagged by heuristics as a link farm and a phishing/trojan. The primary malicious URL identified is https://nipisod.ru/strik, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and heuristic firings strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7003

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://nipisod.ru/strik?utm_term=does+the+force+of+gravity+increase+with+height PDF link annotation
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