Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c3891c02843e835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.1 KB Created: 2020-12-19 13:26:23 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: cd37d8e7db5ecf38515dddaaa6f388e9 SHA-1: 75bd1829f6fb289c55fa2aa8565f63e7690dc2c8 SHA-256: 6c3891c02843e835702bb9feed41259b62e0373204760bbdd2a6327109c44b0e
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics as a malicious redirector and a link farm, indicating its purpose is to distribute traffic to other malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=sif4+intermolecular+forces' and numerous links hosted on disposable domains like 'weebly.com', reinforce this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://traffking.ru/123?utm_term=sif4+intermolecular+forces In PDF document text
    • https://zalinojawovuga.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134886974/belefubakupulese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4496380/normal_5fdafcf9153f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gipadakox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134884067/6491286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jugijivarute.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134620481/virakezusewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://toredakiwireg.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739366/7258178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471719/normal_5fbd538823a9b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4495065/normal_5fca12a8e09a4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4367617/normal_5fcbcc7ed08d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373297/normal_5f8bce7a41a0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xomadugazulu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134597447/xelul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc7b538feeefa0c0b63a799/t/5fcd59f724c49707d3307f78/1607293435867/pathfinder_kingmaker_knife_master_arcane_trickster.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5fc53c1cf7cf8c7540473628/t/5fcd52aa05ddc9599d313f1c/1607291564388/ludo_star_2_online_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2483290a-2d6c-416a-a31f-9664036b6883/lizumisibowoso.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
    • 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_off0000cdb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDB6 5220 bytes
SHA-256: e22eabdc8293203ab62c1c8b56a68c9753fce5af362202c817b8238c8ffa9d2d
font_01_sfnt_off0000df64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDF64 11320 bytes
SHA-256: aa05191a857de4e9fca0909674813f0762cab0b2ba8f6f4e341e376300d4c03f
font_02_sfnt_off0001063e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1063E 16080 bytes
SHA-256: a1bdc24ec6dc0332449754d26803ee00bb6717469f64a18f47c680e22104396b