Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5c4c3b6510036486…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.2 KB Created: 2021-07-16 18:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 34499995f3272c23f406cee2ae6e3ed0 SHA-1: c6511d5cae31a4402185a3ee1626c0704274be88 SHA-256: 5c4c3b65100364868041c87c11972e4daf2ff8f3679a4ec9c0b189f9da38759f
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics, including ML and ClamAV, as malicious and phishing-related. It contains an embedded URI and an SEO redirector link that points to a URL associated with phishing. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of these indicators strongly suggests a phishing attempt designed to lure users to a malicious site.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9920

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
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • 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://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sq/ugae/~3/CcIy6vlvkUk/square?utm_term=2nd+router+as+access+point PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ec9b889cb57f380a79ca5f/1626119049049/gavitovupadijuvejed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60edc860e55429721e1e938e/1626196064431/best_looking_witcher_3_armor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60eca69c973f9128ac6e12df/1626121884456/the_national_education.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60ee8f501cf0e6777f32d803/1626246993028/you_shall_not_steal_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4dd19f082755c4e5c69/t/60e8ea59f492d21a0f684f9b/1625877081747/how_many_days_does_goldfish_eggs_hatch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60f11ceb96ce9b33d7304fe5/1626414316282/how_to_train_your_puppy_to_give_paw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60f077039383a81116924221/1626371847923/3727977242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60edd0ed7ce58f02ed926698/1626198253748/zegixaxewezuwijixuxatilem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60f01c9d4980ba6b3b700d2b/1626348701682/managing_risk_in_project_management.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f074.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF074 10584 bytes
SHA-256: b85c0a4e5127eb865c3a8536fedc29cbd687944fe72bbfc9ed15b4523942c49b
font_01_sfnt_off000108c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x108C2 16976 bytes
SHA-256: 2b03d414277d865d8464ae1e04cad4a7372b0fdb745e7543f627931fc4831fc3
font_02_sfnt_off000134e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x134E0 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1