Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 48aad8af6a7e9a52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.2 KB Created: 2021-03-27 21:07:58 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 5f2ddcdec22ada54f77e34b4f39c3be4 SHA-1: cef249ed4a4de6f850402be15f02c6f1d5c50480 SHA-256: 48aad8af6a7e9a52491478a6567f71e44057690cde2670c0f891879811fd5315
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are flagged as link farms. One prominent URL, 'https://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=advanced+grammar+in+use+supplementary+exercises+with+answers+pdf+download', is presented in a way that mimics a search result, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

Heuristics 4

  • 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://botokaw.ru/award?keyword=advanced+grammar+in+use+supplementary+exercises+with+answers+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • http://tapopapebesawu.getenjoyment.net/tifatidolaramugavaparo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4472503/normal_605badee8eb26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4497344/normal_6032d85faf8a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4530910/normal_5fd9b12f5c33b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bixapusaxoxuw.iblogger.org/7610983116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4453914/normal_5fd078111dcc1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoziduso.mypressonline.com/92321605273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://topukovatawosu.sportsontheweb.net/ficha_biopsicosocial_primaria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boledidezole.22web.org/explain_ebcdic_code_with_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lupixopuvir.onlinewebshop.net/effective_workplace_communication_third_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ab60d57a-1f92-408f-9079-0b325776b613.filesusr.com/ugd/724fb5_ebd272cba2c34604864b7fa4b9fd3b11.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://314f4944-3dd9-45af-b5ee-fc7f46c963e4.filesusr.com/ugd/73cb9e_909b0f2c11694ed5972af0a590e0f6c3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://lisotabisalak.epizy.com/kibaruxawenoforeba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/39cb9722-840b-4f5a-9dc3-cf5b4db78851/61228270906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3057264-6366-4eeb-bd8b-9873b1740083/how_to_treat_pimple_spots_on_face.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d5e9a058-cbdc-4968-ba72-30cdbf1e36a3.filesusr.com/ugd/9cfd0a_f6d99f5e24e442d59c43658e39164f10.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://850a36a1-966c-46c3-86ed-e15bcb5778a7.filesusr.com/ugd/ede58b_cbe58da9090b40389254df44d22efad2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4051c454-31cc-41f5-803c-7282afcfa4ce/what_percentile_is_my_gre_score.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d7b28d72-d1e1-4b46-bb46-c79c6fba6556/verizon_-_ellipsis_jetpack_4g_lte_prepaid_mobile_hotspot_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://4fe85328-8dbf-40e9-afa8-2c8d6ff8a9c8.filesusr.com/ugd/9c0842_a69a7c2e4e214c4180d8183960b6e0f8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dutebowoxaj.rf.gd/recipe_book_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abbf68a8-5b21-4996-91be-11266bd273ed.filesusr.com/ugd/9374a7_7f2bfdf3783447b1b55a51cbf426a084.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5a060084-92f5-4e09-b02e-bbac8bb45871.filesusr.com/ugd/05c943_513453ac83f34a64ab741ad28326b607.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d658.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD658 5880 bytes
SHA-256: be1afb351d37e6104628f65cabf8e02ac630b948d917d84b7c246471d19d8514
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea57.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA57 11236 bytes
SHA-256: 882a0f0aff3c127951be1205c8650c397dd22914f6adbe56354799ed219f601f