Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0b11fdddab3d0cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2021-09-18 01:36:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-11-02
MD5: 3acba8dbb65f6adf875a85b8a458aaf6 SHA-1: f044c571eaf38ab8e7bee26d16f30319cb964fa1 SHA-256: e0b11fdddab3d0cc6547cbc1c3f0c45783d984281df64308272cd914ded9262b
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, exhibiting characteristics of a phishing lure. The 'PDF_IMAGE_LURE' heuristic indicates it's an image-based document with a clickable action, designed to deceive users. The presence of numerous external links, many on disposable hosting, further supports a malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious sites for credential harvesting or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8579

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
  • 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 38 KB — typical shape of a phishing lure where a full-page screenshot hides a clickable button that launches or submits to an attacker URL.
  • 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.
  • 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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