Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45c6bfd1fe0e1f4b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.2 KB Created: 2021-06-12 21:55:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 465abc75306c7ba9cf1b9bccbea77f63 SHA-1: fcac89d6b8fa6ee8b5bf608acad2f1fbb7f59cfc SHA-256: 45c6bfd1fe0e1f4ba5989a4c9bbd05c49c108469986e2926239252c2231695ec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classification and ClamAV, indicating it's a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to obscure the true malicious destination. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a malicious document intended to redirect users to harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://archism.ru/wb?keyword=cognitive%20behavioral%20therapy%20exercises%20pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488569/normal_600ff820bf5f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vabeliguteziji.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379360/8700473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4480598/normal_60512393cb908.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4425727/normal_6005a92e6fcff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://reforolirif.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134885236/jetusuzusom_nawoviwexesa_nikexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suwanofanezelon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636577/21bab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://luboguti.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739177/dfff6b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sorudexene.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384015/7518095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rigokapine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134593974/vudupidu-zukubub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wazelekur.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134322050/5130986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jifemeput.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134398411/1395566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ziwarafe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134306838/704868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kekugijofer.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135321092/2773557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remepapud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134767963/tunana_xuxisa_judaxovesawijod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://mutoteja.pbworks.com/f/momos_in_lajpat_nagar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiwitanul.pbworks.com/f/natuta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sijomirurefi.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144620733/how_much_do_chief_administrative_officers_make.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubuzefi.pbworks.com/f/26962696729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jugakob.pbworks.com/f/pijiwil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wudiwiligis.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/144568011/pepee_oyunlar_indir_cretsiz.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001684f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1684F 5692 bytes
SHA-256: f5f62beb9bb45e043502c8ebaf3c6916244e58218365ed729d7b5d41f344051f
font_01_sfnt_off00017bba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BBA 12604 bytes
SHA-256: d0d1b6218970913a88b7a040c43cef6c787ff3fcf7a3321cd772cdbd71f7fd7c