Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cb55c4b503e978e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.0 KB Created: 2021-03-18 12:17:00 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 9eb23c0ff32cd97967d98ad16f243c45 SHA-1: 48ff3392511ffc5b11392cf56bdaba89cb77c8a8 SHA-256: 6cb55c4b503e978e2953e029fe0f4f2dc29810e61fae64c8d5d5ddb1166a46e2
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external URLs points to an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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
  • 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://druttle.ru/award?keyword=calendar+ortodox+2020+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/fapiwejagiz/hdmuif8/boxhead_zombie_wars_unblocked_at_school.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lalibirubifo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873838/d51a70850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lodavoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134505118/lodigomefafira_vixibiko_zipar_muwajuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://degewobajobazim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324790/kazawikaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/modajili/P0WZEic/tovugezira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fapaga/cancriformis_grn_spanien.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/welanisowari/higher_ground_stevie_wonder_sheet_music_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/damapegapi/gdKhftu/cytosine_always_pairs_with.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xufaxoferugod/rojomapewejitad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tezilejesitox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163634/031b0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f20522fe-cea9-4675-851c-330685ed85c2/computer_systems_analyst_class.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b1d4f555-1eac-4d61-aa83-27206cf3ee4b.filesusr.com/ugd/1706f5_1d374190d579490f8d1fde895a179950.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9534cc33-30dc-483d-bed2-8d5691710d48.filesusr.com/ugd/3835dd_1fc165d1349e47699068b7a7641893ac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://457cefd1-268f-49c0-9ca4-ced5ac281e6b.filesusr.com/ugd/983758_5880331f60674ad69d49f1cb38627551.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6cae1c59-a59b-4c6f-938e-d323706c26bd/how_to_reset_check_engine_light_on_chevy_malibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c3a7a64c-5591-430b-94d7-c2eadfdf3523.filesusr.com/ugd/966478_8d25ebcfe6f240988bf9513b0221fd9a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://507d1b22-ea03-4061-a262-f79425337ca2.filesusr.com/ugd/a374b9_5beda73241574b6a865cba18c66de979.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f952c145-38db-4904-b09c-e9935d77feaa/91452041766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/a34b40f2-ae4e-4610-a66f-c4eb8f4f7bb1/34642635751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3ff3b52d-671e-4fea-98a2-5b10837b7288/4403232994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e088fc1d-abe7-4e40-bbae-1be35d7c6e40/71559523767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e4ad1d8d-469f-481e-8a2b-fb1a85e2677f/bodyweight_workouts_for_legs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8d142066-a43e-4ab6-b0c0-47dec0cc7147/55851857341.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_off00014001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14001 3376 bytes
SHA-256: 8e5ecfb84408a7369f2e22a5040f8c697bb517bf7bbe9648417322251b1292d9
font_01_sfnt_off00014c1d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14C1D 5196 bytes
SHA-256: c4eb9715021860599f75c3f5d9fd67724551168f8be81b2842cbb09ce5ab3997
font_02_sfnt_off00015deb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15DEB 14104 bytes
SHA-256: 2ce67fdd51d717015434c4ee9d99726fea7b6edba504a905b9ef48324636e823