Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a98ab7eebb56f488…

MALICIOUS

PDF

117.4 KB Created: 2021-06-16 22:49:24 +03:00 Authoring application: Barbara Miller I II III IV V MD DDS PhD DVM (via Gary Perkins Jr. Sr. I II III IV V MD DDS PhD DVM) First seen: 2021-06-20
MD5: 801ba53598e09d72b42fb22af6624c25 SHA-1: ddbedffc9035eb2c40f1d85635c3384126035b54 SHA-256: a98ab7eebb56f488bda5f503888e85d6e6b8d91ad4b134b85594d1b57b0a9ffa
84 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and exhibits characteristics of a phishing lure, specifically an image-only document with a clickable action trigger. The embedded URL 'http://lyoy.makinggoals.com' is likely used to deliver a secondary payload or redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.3443

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Malware.Agent-9873092-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Malware.Agent-9873092-0
  • 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 117 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.
    URL http://lyoy.makinggoals.com PDF link annotation