Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adb2cd869aa28de1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2021-04-07 03:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 93f6b8741a25926e054c9c25b4f1922f SHA-1: a9ad12d6f16b325cfcc2d3975f6c8ed3844f5f6e SHA-256: adb2cd869aa28de157650a9a3f40c18f88136f4fbd80175d0726b7e231595193
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. The heuristic 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' indicates it presents as an image-only document with an action trigger, designed to deceive users into clicking embedded links. The presence of numerous external links, including 'https://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=ethnic+conflict+in+south+sudan+pdf', suggests a link farm or redirection mechanism for malicious purposes.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7441

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-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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 62 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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