Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c01c2ae618d49204…

MALICIOUS

PDF

400.0 KB Created: 2021-08-02 16:36:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: e53fe6881fbb539add08c5d50b6f06e6 SHA-1: 7c2955e77cefefe4253d780b25d97e692ed1363d SHA-256: c01c2ae618d4920449ed65a8f8d89a2afe876bd3caf5d0ceb03b9cad4d432730
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a specific signature indicating it is a phishing trojan. It contains an embedded URI that points to a URL seemingly offering a download for popular media, which is a common lure for phishing attacks. The PDF structure and the presence of an external URI suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.1444

Heuristics 3

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/1KS0DP0cxss/uplcv?utm_term=shawn+mendes+wonder+album+download+deviantart PDF link annotation