Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c88bf4dfdc90e1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2021-07-15 15:05:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: b189cf4f06d4d1626f158a1807f92320 SHA-1: 3d648fe4632441d15e73adc2fcec478a69ecbef0 SHA-256: 2c88bf4dfdc90e1e9f80661ee9f5379017b644130668386c78036dd7c199684c
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded URL that points to a suspicious domain, identified by the PDF_URI heuristic. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of the external URI suggests an attempt to redirect the user to a potentially harmful site, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.6221

Heuristics 4

  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://infrive.ru/square?utm_term=but+although+however+grammar PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60effbc04063550b157c2e5d/1626340288167/brain_out_game_76_level.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60eda8deeb7cc826ddc6c048/1626187998938/55260601308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60ec8f1bf4b4775d04a01f43/1626115867282/puxewududawuvame.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dae2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDAE2 16968 bytes
SHA-256: 5d04e479be0576e2df62c2ea06a6d00ad96e14cc87220789adf97af6eaa3d88d
font_01_sfnt_off00010720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10720 10496 bytes
SHA-256: e61b308998cbb4853a1425c39f045a860771e6bd2d077daf84bbf5bf11c55507
font_02_sfnt_off00011f24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F24 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1