Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d9e02a875f8d231…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2021-03-09 20:47:06 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 459f59a1719a676833c802ceb6cbb2c3 SHA-1: 12bf5da0d6f59a69952b4f1e9fc476cb16a40e65 SHA-256: 1d9e02a875f8d231a7e7ccc2ec4d1e5dcff4f263b71f31067fbcd49c26a27594
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a phishing or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of embedded links points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and URL patterns are indicative of a malicious document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/strik?utm_term=what+is+the+theme+of+the+story+the+monkey%2527s+paw PDF link annotation
    • http://nakanilo.club/tigolozodenabemye9zr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tersq.space/79854277524cdryc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://babotiditufo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134694550/1838179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feziriwavejoli.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096108/zetepenomum_zuzozasagef_gexozasuruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wutugavefezaza.22web.org/what_is_the_best_encyclopedia_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lepepapiminokuj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493398/jewojevet_numajorilazik_jaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leree4.club/zuxisezonennjum3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ba3a7bb5-edd2-4228-b29c-cf272df6a868.filesusr.com/ugd/bd1c09_24d5f4c731a44d998e0cfef33dbd8906.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://favekagopu.epizy.com/electrocardiograma_anormal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/97131f10-d86f-4d8d-aecc-50a24e2a3aaf/79191693064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7aaaf3df-d3c4-4f0b-ba58-d2b5ac01615d/calories_in_one_bob_evans_biscuit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://6cdf8c5e-36a0-4b6d-987f-32d3d50030cd.filesusr.com/ugd/3c2e2e_6e4eff88d9354719a00b57bfebfe2e7d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e3055f73-6236-423b-b810-4bc1a15f300f.filesusr.com/ugd/fa12d1_9fe947ab73a947378c5765c6b6a6537e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4ec63ec4-77bf-4499-900e-7c522af20654.filesusr.com/ugd/35bdb9_250d3a5a9b08455eae710570788a9b89.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aa519baa-ee4b-497f-907f-80d2698e3fcb/what_is_the_climax_in_the_story_of_life_of_pi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://57eba762-b826-4879-8d7a-7f480aba2934.filesusr.com/ugd/e89c2b_3e8a14de82694e5eb990c57a32663ffa.pdf?index=trueIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dc32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC32 5412 bytes
SHA-256: aad94b449ce522292411a12a759cbf62aa225ce3162cc86fec87072f617202fa
font_01_sfnt_off0000ee90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEE90 1940 bytes
SHA-256: 3c8c70e95e172d87f88249f6e98f5fcd1d779dd22b9512bb6276049fa774e71f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7C8 10244 bytes
SHA-256: 737e2d0af36381ff44538adc896c2cd548ded4b6abf8d31820edbcc88e725a08