Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36a6ca50da236f2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2021-01-14 05:59:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 25ebdd84a7aea6f4aa734d89ac24ed55 SHA-1: 442613229b67948629ac04d88080eb528dac26b5 SHA-256: 36a6ca50da236f2dc0537737af60563c9dbb3538387bce22e019ec97cdaaf4fb
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs pointing to known malicious redirectors and disposable hosting, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are indicative of malicious redirection, likely leveraging embedded JavaScript for obfuscation or execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/aws?utm_term=medicare+abn+form+template In PDF document text
    • https://site-1166598.mozfiles.com/files/1166598/estreimiento_cronico_funcional.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/julukimesof/vmRjcib/rupagalotuxemorevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1177663.mozfiles.com/files/1177663/65112516149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gubujurit/DjgiaCT/foleserotoropazodifatomiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1176447.mozfiles.com/files/1176447/roblox_free_robux_promo_codes_2020_august.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xiwajuropoji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134371127/nipifas-bejabuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1192441.mozfiles.com/files/1192441/56798923152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1177584.mozfiles.com/files/1177584/73296619065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1168006.mozfiles.com/files/1168006/warivivifagow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1210646.mozfiles.com/files/1210646/brewmaster_font_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jivuxo/82446768981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pajukovuxetu/compass_group_plc_annual_report_2016.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dff0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFF0 5056 bytes
SHA-256: 257da068e1b7024d1e8fbd49ab9a4c628a02d4b559e3856e023135cdc350a9de
font_01_sfnt_off0000f0fa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF0FA 10960 bytes
SHA-256: 4db39ab2335e441ce0e1b6a90b362555fd875d3a38306207ed2c6e6aebc8ac28
font_02_sfnt_off00011522.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11522 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2