Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df78a6e100fb1203…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2021-07-31 04:24:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: cc56db81b5823f5dddde2a0bf7fee1ab SHA-1: ebe50263a341fcf162471060d2f7e096e0e5792e SHA-256: df78a6e100fb1203179a06bd7e3191ba59d9b83c0198d6943739a99450585097
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a signature indicating it is a PDF phishing trojan. While the embedded URL points to a confirmed benign domain, the presence of the ClamAV signature and the PDF_URI heuristic suggest the document's intent is to trick users into visiting potentially malicious links, a common phishing tactic. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.3406

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/Uplcv/~3/cv9VXjIrmdE/uplcv?utm_term=whats+a+gpa+scale+reporting PDF link annotation