Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a3bee1d8d2c2d14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.7 KB Created: 2021-03-22 18:32:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: c57cd5c2260309626ae045e67a8d5e1a SHA-1: d0130528cef76835a782cb5e131b9d849e524fc0 SHA-256: 2a3bee1d8d2c2d1470201025d2b36223231eb557d4091aec6dd8152858217ad5
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier, exhibiting characteristics of a link farm with numerous external URLs. The presence of multiple PDF links, some hosted on disposable domains, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The primary URL, https://kuzutuzo.ru/wix?keyword=subjective+moral+relativism+definition, appears to be a keyword-driven redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/wix?keyword=subjective+moral+relativism+definition PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462678/normal_6049598ea40f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezltml.xyz/mupokamosipotukyfbx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/remuv/akele_hain_chale_aao_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dopugaxelelema/82221749062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logoped-samara.ru/66530813049hqnt2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421612/normal_6049df23d6c06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://chambreop.xyz/34101927735fxv1z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405208/normal_5fcd36f85039a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4423431/normal_60222c126ca64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wuruderow.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135389815/7928100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424036/normal_6014c921b55fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/towakog/accounting_standard_9_revenue_recognition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407304/normal_60263c918d8c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4454042/normal_5fd16e5af22d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://butonobafogiz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134607318/ec066199e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411916/normal_5fcb4f80c28c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496810/normal_6020f95e96cba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4498978/normal_5fe3582c5680c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fowuwulavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134754099/sokebedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413976/normal_5fcb64e33cf08.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452588/normal_5fca021faca13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00012316.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12316 5544 bytes
SHA-256: c577ca2548692808e942083a861a92f65b4973bf58d87e979d97761d156c8ce6
font_01_sfnt_off000135dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x135DD 12656 bytes
SHA-256: 9f0a5e306680a744761b797ea6770b5b6d370b0a52d2f9bcf4a11bf2e3227924
font_02_sfnt_off00016057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16057 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 5b0d2701ab39d2f69c66d7d16c60d8db0b323aa0832947137e757b5401d27330