Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f204204b54b02fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.0 KB Created: 2021-03-18 06:39:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 151ca7deab0c4b95cb801a9524a4ac63 SHA-1: 126eb3aafc69ac420aaa6ce8fc9abb5831bad96b SHA-256: 4f204204b54b02fb910fe6f1bc873dfbb255990aa68abd4bda62a51d508aea2e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish users. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of a phishing or scam campaign, likely initiated via spearphishing.

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/award?keyword=apprendre+anglais+pour+debutant+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/suwuwewazaka/dHhcBid/logo_maker_free_logo_creator_lab_graphic_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sozonexof/jbigqig/zonokomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xejudawadoni/jisoQhe/samsung_email_gmail_unable_to_validate_account.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bewewojiwo/PPFROib/forza_horizon_4_best_s2_hypercar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fefurorobumi/90771854447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gukawaki/bgdoheI/the_last_stand_union_city_hacked_online_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xemugugafot/eT2Siij/what_sea_animal_are_you_playbuzz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruwemipuwev.mypressonline.com/fuzad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/ponivotigegepub/13020726722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/livivuvuwugeb/dreamweaver_software_for_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zidodovare/b2eGxih/jeposukazulota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://8ecf7690-1f99-4e28-a4b6-3228ba9731d7.filesusr.com/ugd/63d3ad_eb8558a7b75346daa2bf8d30e121c5cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://67a4337f-2b79-4d04-9c1d-2578c80f4945.filesusr.com/ugd/964009_53ee7adab397419fb56d77356b62c2d9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://megigezorozo.atwebpages.com/rabedudebojoxikix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://1347de4c-4e54-429a-b84c-372e60bc5a2b.filesusr.com/ugd/6c98bc_d1714a8014b44b928a756ce650783473.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e1d5fa5a-667c-4d22-bb72-2ec96b4ed0f7.filesusr.com/ugd/01f30d_80825ec0ff57465bbb4673fe520e1659.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f77f6c5e-dc58-4ee9-bb68-415d9a2c9300/43752122586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7095e710-59ac-4d27-8a5a-f3bbcaf65deb.filesusr.com/ugd/418e76_a56359abd27d420590693666ad77f01d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6619295a-e141-43a9-8ce6-f44776eeee13/couch_to_5k_treadmill_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6374bc8a-0e7f-4fbf-a28f-86ad05aa337d/53103009094.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn 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_off0000fa06.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA06 6504 bytes
SHA-256: 8522561e56dc4aa1e24d7f8194443676aac5772b18dc1a4e09752b78bde05f58
font_01_sfnt_off00010a3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10A3C 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 634d858bdacb3861fcbf4e81c31ea48131bb463f50eeb04169b663de88b0a884
font_02_sfnt_off00011c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11C6B 12812 bytes
SHA-256: 27447c74cea02e75613bce6d5a6a4fdf749bbaedcd09febc186a3d9d83cd5f0a