Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3535e506844ae43…

MALICIOUS

PDF

129.7 KB Created: 2021-06-20 22:17:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-09-24
MD5: 0d5fc4629748806e37ffd33d5f99f6fa SHA-1: 63c6eb96204c63be525581242dd82751883b8344 SHA-256: f3535e506844ae43775615d6b45739f87e17ce8cbda84e23ced33f41ff3523b1
64 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by ClamAV with a 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' signature. It contains an embedded URI pointing to a URL that, while currently confirmed benign, is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be metadata from the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting it was generated programmatically rather than being a user-authored document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.2941

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/YTWXjIUwRh0/uplcv?utm_term=gre+argument+essay+pool+answers PDF link annotation

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