Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 23c139a217d90a14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-04-11 04:54:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e4b16481693dc128f3a09869ba0f8c1c SHA-1: eae0d5afa3622a7da185343fce677ba20fb0a5cc SHA-256: 23c139a217d90a14de5371cf9c1fadabea8bd4f55813df894021c5ad07f43e9c
144 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document employs a social engineering tactic by impersonating a Minecraft Forge download, but its primary function appears to be a link farm. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to execute a command, potentially to bypass macro restrictions and download further malicious content. The numerous external PDF links, identified by 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', suggest a coordinated effort to distribute malicious files or manipulate search engine results.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://thehnossaproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383624/131383624.html#minecraft+forge+14.23.5.2772+applica PDF link annotation
    • http://cashmannutrition.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620633/pejozebapi-kiwamamitirux-juzonemeloli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tagmintz.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604952/judulak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mirandamcasting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/95e5031a43cfb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://simplicitysold.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130287896/vuxipuwibogixiz_xumebamosa_xibogiraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hscpdhpesportsmed.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539130/c1302470067e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instantcelebritymaker.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482919/b1898.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dbarts.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775435/0892fae14.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wingwarehouseohio.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488087/9075464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://the-big-one.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438044/725488d4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ranoscreations.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379189/puropewesujoriloz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jardindeden.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476068/1714698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sparkcommunity.online/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407763/6669227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://basinsresearchgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621284/31d0608f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tobegenz.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381045/zurijixik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jump4joynh.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130589219/laxali.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006aa5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AA5 8212 bytes
SHA-256: 0fe418fa37145dc5a20482c97e072325821ec62c72c736db1f7cfff245d8abf5
font_01_sfnt_off00008a60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8A60 16064 bytes
SHA-256: 81df44247aa6368ee4f5613fd77267ee6cd66bd9e993d06b683ce941502b9c33