Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a255e80a7d3ce68…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.8 KB Created: 2021-02-11 06:51:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 62273c46c2805fda801e6e6d468fea48 SHA-1: 3fc21b6156aba8ccc8d4e1ecbfbfce66ca513f17 SHA-256: 4a255e80a7d3ce68b8519463135831ca35821dc865ed78d2f9f51b4f1ac604a9
206 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains and employing UTM parameters, indicative of SEO spam or phishing lures. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' strongly suggest this malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the 'ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION' heuristics, along with the malformed stream, confirm its malicious nature, likely exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to redirect users.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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/123?utm_term=forces+worksheet+2+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ligumorik/cgfhihj/takeout_places_to_eat_near_me_drive_thru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gojapawareke/dcvhiha/idle_city_empire_hack_apk_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://you-bestshop.xyz/62568162804thzga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://phrensy.co/monthly_attendance_register_format_for_employeesihe87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/peruvereraba/10d6Vjj/vuvugemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jushq.club/tivolixexobekok9dmzk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xevubevisebu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134754503/2571883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enots.space/abbey_glover_please_don_t_got7rpk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raicen.com/forge_of_empire_hackx3fyp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fuwifemi/3T0sPTS/vegan_ice_cream_delivery_near_me.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sivabujik.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017760/kanog_lesejolazisina_pevisevedes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vozevadijut/4Eidjep/lonisusawumum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kodipopujufipig/animation_cartoon_wallpaper_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zozuxukoxo/xuwidekovivuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/taguxif/android_snackbar_top_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gotitibekovi/62460443208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jamuluvuvava/tepamatarejiwunu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cdeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDEB 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 34caca7cb8aef53416d2b61e35abf4fef375e886a0db864a3c1363bf74dd51a5
font_01_sfnt_off0000deb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDEB9 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 4baac37f05200f07efd24f66df1c652a2f5d7da34d404faa90d8730fc5cbbc7d
font_02_sfnt_off0001026a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1026A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378