Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd87de66e30a6468…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2021-03-19 17:20:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-24
MD5: 9efa1674996fd243a2fa9efcfa5be9a3 SHA-1: f7b71d66c2edf7521e5523afe3c33713a917c6a8 SHA-256: bd87de66e30a646831ff2134665baed6f20c0140ebbc80166fbf0bf2db217f0a
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links to external PDF documents, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. Several heuristics confirm this, including PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM. The ML classifier also flagged the PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the nature of the links suggests a potential distribution vector for malicious content or phishing attempts.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9372

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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