Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e187bbd098e16f2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.7 KB Created: 2021-02-05 12:47:29 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-04-09
MD5: 0ebdd51ea29ca96d6370ab08ec6d285d SHA-1: 5d450d52b2145a9b1627f3ea5fce70f9c3d1cf31 SHA-256: 5e187bbd098e16f24b4536b178834f03f6f4788e4fd0f23f6719afc2bda5f8a6
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable domains, and is flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious phishing content. The document body discusses the 'Alchemist' class in Pathfinder, likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded links. The presence of multiple external URIs and the 'link farm' heuristic suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • 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://pawizujepus.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637171/zinozovupaxupaker.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://czecheducation.space/lokotibibil0s7ms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383308/normal_600172ec698aa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hookup154.site/nitrogen_tribromide_intermolecular_fc5n9u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4366365/normal_5fe241942660e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4383704/normal_5fe7a000c1846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://burolona.22web.org/15319580423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388421/normal_5fe665b56af4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xabetibupu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738966/bfffc5fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nigimul/bwana_mungu_nashangaa_kabisa_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jacksth.ru/wb?keyword=gun%20alchemist%20guide%20pathfinderPDF link annotation
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000f2aa.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000f2aa.bin)
    • http://sowinoto.epizy.com/dagikalixedoxegifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mejitakofiragi.epizy.com/incident_report_template_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://webidiwotew.epizy.com/jetodorakevidujuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janalusexisowa.epizy.com/google_sheets_templates_timesheet.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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000f2aa.bin)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f2aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2AA 5600 bytes
SHA-256: c114465abe475abe7fb40ea5fcbf23f9fb33299637b2bfc490fd1520709a7802
font_01_sfnt_off00010587.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10587 10816 bytes
SHA-256: e1c5b216a72ad87afab782221558039b7e7e7642e66cd7f5ec34ba6468bd5b6f