Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4314c85c9f3cb2e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.9 KB Created: 2021-03-26 02:37:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 44e9c18611ddb9b1b8cfbbc9f97d92d2 SHA-1: 1267bc661a2d8bb79895a08110ee60f195d8d0f2 SHA-256: 4314c85c9f3cb2e57326ab73b975b3fc88033b85ffcdf2dd381dc0b6494b9d4e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous external URLs pointing to other PDF documents hosted on various domains, some of which are disposable. The primary purpose appears to be SEO manipulation or directing users to potentially malicious content hosted elsewhere.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/wix?keyword=yeast+infection+home+remedies+yahoo+answers PDF link annotation
    • http://wiinorama.fun/ouz_atay_eserleriskgun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkostore.xyz/buvubinutiwiworuyaa5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazzsheff.xyz/media_markt_gutschein_online_einlosen_geht_nichto7ms0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vowibesep/Eicjigf/durinomejizipujugavuferu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4405674/normal_5ff45c8b52934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mipijotom/IjcadWW/freeway_closures_southern_california_today.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4490735/normal_5fe323e670d71.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slimerecipe.org/zexijowowanojelifakqtt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://43cb2d18-1589-43a7-b1c5-fe1278e1c76d.filesusr.com/ugd/370b54_4ae98dd2594444c7b1021c41af871f00.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://69868269-04aa-4a0d-8379-1371762fd556.filesusr.com/ugd/d8beff_3efc3aa0b5af471696282778d0e15455.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://21c505bb-01ca-4817-a549-4ed1ebba5040.filesusr.com/ugd/7d7105_100c64398d1747f0827d1bd225d8d165.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://dd67658a-cc17-4e1c-bca5-42bf299a485b.filesusr.com/ugd/07a440_73900bbd63ff44b98290328a2280ff14.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39ad70c8-6a03-4de2-a89b-b0209cba5754.filesusr.com/ugd/d2759c_39090afabe57429aaa48af3bf0ee5b74.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://be08d7d4-326a-4801-be9d-4496af17a43b.filesusr.com/ugd/d31907_9978cea8ad4a487cba15e972d3070ba0.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://128fc002-9ed4-4a8f-9a6b-83b43563a9ed.filesusr.com/ugd/6812d7_84a4af2ebbdb41f0acf1fe0263cc3fb9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67dec473-0a9c-497c-80b1-62a4c84c5046.filesusr.com/ugd/0aab01_4d4681c84bad453586092fbb01387a65.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2ea9429b-0332-4ee6-bb75-ab9535b56c99.filesusr.com/ugd/e2f7e1_144dbd6bb32e47039c4353233d6ec4f7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ffb80149-315c-4936-8637-e87477b606fc.filesusr.com/ugd/e7410d_187550c508de407ab187490176d30158.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c183b790-cb34-49aa-848e-1a9f2b14dda3.filesusr.com/ugd/d8966e_71ced8dcd08f489aa34ad3ad056030b5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9e084d23-5bbf-42ad-98e9-fa9200f8584e.filesusr.com/ugd/4f663b_335107094b53404cbd41c7b3cd64d76d.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e1db.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE1DB 2900 bytes
SHA-256: b3dfb2f2c41da7350fc3755141d2fd0ea5796bb125df25fec831093623ff73df
font_01_sfnt_off0000ec1e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC1E 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 5196e00ac87458cac19ff49dc29dc94da785b0b623c298385bcba8f4683cd0b0
font_02_sfnt_off0000fe56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE56 12520 bytes
SHA-256: 3253aac275399cb21439b78f6aa87fc2ea37b4b216747db99fab939eb3109206