Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42865f20c8720ae8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.4 KB Created: 2021-03-18 08:48:25 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: cde5528a85f7c0441ee3107cd31506fd SHA-1: d42e31631352648da36c44cf50682009747b7042 SHA-256: 42865f20c8720ae895f913b73ca9d414dd3724b7dbe360078aace8acd840f2a7
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links and references to known malicious redirectors, indicating an attempt to lead users to harmful websites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a video game walkthrough, likely serving as a lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://dafemum.ru/strik?utm_term=super+mario+bros+2+3ds+walkthrough+world+5+castle In PDF document text
    • http://baramijotafexo.mypressonline.com/99730185358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454163/normal_5ff54701beaf0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4401982/normal_5fc794182fcc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4466664/normal_5fcb43968f371.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4500889/normal_5ff62326da411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xupokaxe.medianewsonline.com/cashier_training_checklist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4416790/normal_5fc7e9bd25374.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4481271/normal_60261383c1528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4475217/normal_603dc023ae4c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://02aee961-309f-4c8b-9790-08f12c26706e.filesusr.com/ugd/8321db_b89131eaa13e42dd91273cafbc510fb6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d17f4099-ecc1-42b1-9c73-51521793457c.filesusr.com/ugd/4a2613_2c159988fc404ff9bc6d726424365b7d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/220b67a4-9feb-469a-a3b8-129a79de0273/hp_laserjet_m1212nf_mfp_52.0_scanner_error.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e5eb5b25-b33c-43e3-82d5-57ab1bf863d8.filesusr.com/ugd/b0c717_842006660d784314972c719f160bfa01.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5c2cca0d-3a4e-48b0-93bf-8ac6c0c026cb.filesusr.com/ugd/271e65_88910e7725474573b14c1722dddf68d6.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://zuputes.atwebpages.com/winidimog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://883cd1dc-02d0-4059-8fa2-99201f92b631.filesusr.com/ugd/6166c9_57993ee845d742218430e063dd6246cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://pazepoxi.atwebpages.com/sharp_microwave_smc1662ds_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0fcb9a2a-e2b5-4576-ba59-46a1c13edae8/24_hours_a_day_book_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://9907981b-0bc7-4fd3-a434-169f7cdadf42.filesusr.com/ugd/575363_04c9d15f8a564091ba6f4edbbd031281.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00014405.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14405 6308 bytes
SHA-256: 63100a1dc5cba78bb65a99afa318b614ec6f97e50bedd8717363499ae40851eb
font_01_sfnt_off00015958.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15958 11796 bytes
SHA-256: dacbea2101c0f2398ce7b9536a7025d18d4c38b710f2801afe9f549d59f4d3db
font_02_sfnt_off0001817b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1817B 16232 bytes
SHA-256: f260341e2deafef282c0cdf6f9547f7c1575836931e00f2cecf0e77490754097