Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07b21ba5ff9b8512…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.0 KB Created: 2021-01-04 10:07:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 500d5989f162bca93c71eaf26f42bf00 SHA-1: c05e39909cc042cfcea555d9aab1b2c154e8e3db SHA-256: 07b21ba5ff9b851213365aac77dc0818924445c017811094acf4aa9380d8c532
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or malware distribution. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further payloads. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URIs suggests an attempt to redirect the user to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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://traffnew.ru/aws?utm_term=air+force+airman%2527+s+manual+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://xekijepomi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134508866/xoviwobenozeliza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiwugepupuladav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134740110/gasotorunuvunel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xaxibilezulaf.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096047/2dc06ababe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voxapinave.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740917/8196954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nobigifawu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134310244/konaxatitufi-gunoraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://litaxavuve.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134848922/64fdc39cb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dajepulexito.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134591334/lenelipag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://muropezevoride.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134514904/9947eb1595dbdea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tigibivimibi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134344299/8687865.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/najubu/kabifinoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wivunonovef/memphis_football_new_head_football_coach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d157.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD157 5324 bytes
SHA-256: fa3b76393a179a357203c86e4b4d326f24d4b2b312eab7f0c61c96194913d172
font_01_sfnt_off0000e367.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE367 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6d7adac696b2b27db9e62db0fb4a296d7724436b4d27038af959eaba945693