Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6170df24c50adce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-11-25 12:12:22 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cc4c7f542396c47a76944fe6a1766579 SHA-1: 0095185b0882aaf6d8e2643e0ab0ec0903874c3a SHA-256: e6170df24c50adceff819b1c8527a34f68c3e23d4a844b0b2765d3d955b674f7
174 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file is identified as malicious by ClamAV and ML classifiers, and it employs an image-only lure typical of phishing attacks. It contains a clickable link disguised as an "Engineering guide" that redirects to a suspicious URL, likely to download a secondary payload or lead to a credential harvesting page. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URIs strongly suggest a phishing campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7011

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 50 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.
    URL https://traffset.ru/aws?utm_term=engineering+guide+wow+legion
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