Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42b40f994f096003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.0 KB Created: 2021-07-12 20:24:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: b5a5e7b1c2f6e630e32b6fa89e22f8a8 SHA-1: 7e81db0cebc9b0ad21931202358b0566cbe30f23 SHA-256: 42b40f994f0960035c955c3691d28d795674745d830daa7ed61b84f2a8705162
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a redirector link, indicating a phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further support its malicious nature. The embedded URL points to a suspected phishing domain, likely intended to trick users into providing sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7078

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://drafthe.ru/square?utm_term=p%26id+plant+3d PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ec77c05f604029b990400f/1626109888957/dubozowogivexusixetal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60e948718915684aa53e6fcc/1625901169736/ruzasapibuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60e8ea9e58c6623f037f4d52/1625877150776/how_to_remove_side_comments_in_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac59fb7e9621e2f466549/t/60e76cd4c16c9823cf027bd9/1625779412376/55200062319.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_off0000c1d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1D0 19124 bytes
SHA-256: f3c40656567f5f762377da0b4dba6471d95a22c47b927e33611ffd43213ab6d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000f11d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF11D 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00010933.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10933 9076 bytes
SHA-256: 9658ac69013d8124e8d5d06cddf71884c3d3d77d6cfd28f7a94e648f0c6e7383