Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e38dcc12a448371…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2021-02-10 17:29:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 796ad2bcc08a03764787c5445206ad16 SHA-1: 6af53da6b55596b32778937dc3fefd053f239788 SHA-256: 8e38dcc12a448371b9bc3d481dcebdb84c09ab0de88601335ef6dd27cdf67005
134 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a high-severity heuristic firing indicating it's a phishing lure using an SEO redirector to a suspicious URL. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier also flag it as malicious. The embedded URL points to a known malicious domain, likely intended to deliver a secondary payload or redirect to a phishing page.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6878

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
  • 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.
  • 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://jottigo.ru/aws?utm_term=eicar+test+file+mcafee PDF link annotation
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