Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4497f639c029faf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.3 KB Created: 2021-03-20 14:18:05 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: f4eea0b65fd787a08082d4923aadeb2d SHA-1: 7f31419aab51fabab80e59a23da0131d1194b7b2 SHA-256: 4497f639c029faf79587f65f5b2e08a0cbf377023ca1f15229d75720f0b00454
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a potential link farm. The primary URL, 'https://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=definicion+de+aptitud+segun+autores+pdf', suggests a lure related to definitions, possibly to attract search engine traffic or users seeking specific information. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or SEO spam.

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
  • 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.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/award?keyword=definicion+de+aptitud+segun+autores+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4a62723-92ae-4313-b301-101e9df7c878/star_trek_discovery_season_2_dvd_for_sale.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://50aad03f-9d2a-47e6-be13-abd12f321b17.filesusr.com/ugd/3fd638_46c4463401b848ac8f17554d2b99ef2b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/850183e1-05e9-4fb7-91e3-f0a0067755d2/elementary_korean_rutgers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sixenogafopoj/windows_7_ultimate_64_bit_torrent_download_full_version.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kugelilizibuwum/29415051957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a0740b8-a6cc-45c9-96fc-7f495b99b541/stealth_camera_app_iphone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3b0fe5ff-7f86-489c-8138-fc984e51136c.filesusr.com/ugd/bfd78a_4652339c08e2465b9462ff8331e22c00.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d23eb412-52e1-45ef-a32a-0c032022daee.filesusr.com/ugd/03485a_22386c59fa1143d2a1ee1d9dce17fb8f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jotizifime/state_capitals_practice_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xukonakefules/how_to_improve_critical_thinking_skills_nursing.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5572de67-68f6-493f-977e-a8f23ceea430/how_to_use_directv_genie_remote_control.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e437b920-fa79-41d5-b67c-0ca059f4e77a.filesusr.com/ugd/d97c10_a8a0982f528d4c31bf7c0b9e06ade02e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rurovikejigibu/casio_forester_ft-600w_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a2c322e0-fe59-403f-b2db-a8063d4c3dc3/taurus_g2c_9mm_aftermarket_parts.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ac2f5907-a740-48b1-b97b-61bfcef4d653/28690421250.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c98efe2-6649-4279-b888-5a801a87f53e/xewalugidupumisizati.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/defujo/fibugibekitifovemek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jazofi/league_of_legends_patch_dates_2021.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b9313fd8-d3ac-470a-8ffc-bde3e221ef22/sig_p226rx_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://e064a861-6c7b-46af-b67a-66be1f32d776.filesusr.com/ugd/ec3e4b_21ca1dedd3a5489c9f61b505a9b1694b.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ec74.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC74 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 04135fa98d54703d626d26f9028fade6ceaba6318363f1abd7cc5df4a3d850a0
font_01_sfnt_off0000fe8f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE8F 11440 bytes
SHA-256: cb98f457fdbcaf58fe4dbf527b4f3c9981b171cc08048e9c7050b70ca5ca1fca