Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a96956b295fca6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2021-01-24 02:38:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 0930c7cceba2dff560d4e6230a5f2956 SHA-1: cb62b96acf71a3db4becedfc34606725f52ffeec SHA-256: 7a96956b295fca6f7abf44029dd3161c92b786e6a14d35106e5838051e419618
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to disposable hosting services, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of UTM parameters in some URLs indicates an attempt to track user engagement with the phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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 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://bologen.ru/aws?utm_term=check+json+data+format+online PDF link annotation
    • https://serirufudo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134712976/menanugege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4472763/normal_5ffa42032bef7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bupulaserora.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437689/8830512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vunisanelebori.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/3/9/133999195/wabisumulis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puzigodemabotod.iblogger.org/cherryfield_maine_weather_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://runatem.66ghz.com/44990280335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kabomodom.iblogger.org/juseram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://falosaxosudo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134017699/1333665.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4493195/normal_5fdd851972d34.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dujizajep.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134704211/420af4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zikegebuner.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134856814/tikugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fogebutozedelig.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776223/850eee30e57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dofafurubes.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134762343/zotiresisalowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://joratunezawaxa.epizy.com/19998201328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://navadolaje.rf.gd/bendable_clear_plastic_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dunoziboxisi.epizy.com/things_im_thankful_for_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilepav.rf.gd/chiedere_come_stai_in_modo_formale_inglese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://deroselewem.epizy.com/car_wala_cartoon_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bijamujijupife.epizy.com/95742414683.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e12f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE12F 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 311c786543a126c45023ca21097472beff62263c4320bf5f8584f05a56d1df79
font_01_sfnt_off0000f314.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF314 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 6271707d312c3224ea9ec490a49cf311f49705fb50c8f3541d22ce0dd374d1b9