Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30f3c87c4599de2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2021-07-13 06:40:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 27dab232765c77fc0efd9169b40a801f SHA-1: 0920152ead240f99ade7a46f236c294c63f902db SHA-256: 30f3c87c4599de2b4f146c2dbc1a698e59003bdb81bd2037320b20c25684bb4b
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, as malicious. The 'PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic indicates the document is designed as a phishing lure, using an image to redirect users to a URL. While the document body is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, the presence of embedded URLs and the overall detection profile strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sq/ugae/~3/5VO7y1TeAqQ/square?utm_term=good+books+to+read+on+epic PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e77109395393225d105551/1625780489815/god_made_adam_out_of_dust.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ec9ab245711547b6a8705f/1626118834282/59629186683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e93585b673687559686b37/1625896325810/revised_new_oxford_modern_english_workbook_7_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60e912952210ba6bce119102/1625887381998/and_i_guess.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e92f333f195e1e4036b7de/1625894707268/sefunoxenusimeguxageza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60ecf1808c96c6301f8e6376/1626141056741/lewis_dot_structure_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6bff0d8d387fecc8b153/t/60e8d09cbf13e579204b7cf2/1625870492738/rexuwerinogev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e92d7fb132fa362073eaed/1625894271834/valency_of_elements_with_symbols.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ecae1bffa5e93eb2932f1f/1626123803391/force_multiplied_by_distance_equals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e8365f69e16759cf79432c/1625831007685/85662548190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60e79881ce8457037edee2f3/1625790593593/this_is_just_to_say_william_carlos_williams_analysis.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_off0000d3f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3F5 16824 bytes
SHA-256: c422c97f841e4eb66cf0083ae7e2d853631e5ed9c3875ca5e0cd986cf4238fc9
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFC1 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 93d696cf26a25ee1bfdfe8e8917e01399220caddfc738508703b0ddfc8225c0d
font_02_sfnt_off0001185b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1185B 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1