Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e97f83a09f65230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.6 KB Created: 2020-12-19 11:14:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: d2ec3a18d1057161cb9d4c6cd5d4875a SHA-1: 54ed296043e94c99f2aefd454a527c69bf78e66d SHA-256: 3e97f83a09f652307ee67c46901282debc9507b759600f2c0c5a56a22ec3e119
294 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'wkhtmltopdf' and 'Qt', suggesting it might be a generated document. The presence of redirector links and the overall structure point towards a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a password-protected archive lure to bypass initial security checks.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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://traffine.ru/123?utm_term=link2sd+plus+apk+4.3.4 In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367961/normal_5f8767b7224b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gekilatati.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134378061/nibufiliz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4413012/normal_5fb272f2e7a10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450158/normal_5fd3b78cc0ede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4412592/normal_5fae54532b2f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fdd52f8c2d4633280e99069/t/5fdd9c820f6c913d44ddd021/1608359045167/72798846951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c776af6-2cdf-4d2a-963d-e098e0c56de4/63834792717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ad399c8-d895-4db2-9f67-3682b1fa803e/71519835896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc0e9e3bda9c57a97be47bf/t/5fc289763c02f22b9d5f26ea/1606584695622/super_singer_vote_result.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc11e11ec917750a3d92ddd/t/5fcbb344a3bc3d191534c00b/1607185223269/grand_stickman_auto_v_mod_apk_download_uptodown.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc51f2860f2895dc10325ef/t/5fd0aad98f1ddd5ccbe20224/1607510748503/wings_etc_fort_wayne_specials.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fce881f66456240515f431c/t/5fd6a6ce481cfa31add2b1c3/1607902926167/87331971557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1af065b3-2844-44a2-8ef7-7640b9b94275/24491545790.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
    • 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_off0000d191.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD191 5280 bytes
SHA-256: e8295e316eef6e62599c94812ea7ea3a002967033a0ea1842ce1ee34a53f0d48
font_01_sfnt_off0000e3ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE3AE 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 21684c64b2857c067a065000096ac51ca781120093b11935e538e193a20f3a90
font_02_sfnt_off00010844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10844 16144 bytes
SHA-256: 18f56b7fae04e07bc119a468ad323bdda099da77b0772854d1c47cc1f39b9f3b