Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c60e4e064384aec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2021-07-17 23:21:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: cfe6fed18a8a829771569eafd27dce15 SHA-1: 221fa5951ed1ec5f3424eaecbaa4de623c66a8f4 SHA-256: 7c60e4e064384aecdfd5757c9b6053efbdbf4003648d03a61dcfb63e4995bd92
76 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded URI pointing to a Google Feedproxy URL, which in turn redirects to a Squarespace domain. While the URLs themselves are confirmed benign, the presence of an external link within a PDF, coupled with a high ML classifier score, suggests a potential phishing or credential harvesting attempt. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7604

Heuristics 4

  • 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/razvivatel/yapz/~3/UkUWPC8UKDU/square?utm_term=application+of+enzymes+in+medicine+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60ec76f45978cb5ccaa9876b/1626109684822/xivowelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6c89a2b0b938881bcf91/t/60f17ab7d1d8e65aae8a0d9a/1626438327907/40759794781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60ec9122f83a7f26ecd1a500/1626116386491/reactive_forms_example_angular_8.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_off0000d2ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2CE 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000eae5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEAE5 10836 bytes
SHA-256: 5009ce8d3885dcb7729ee8cc21a920d742b5590ed752676d03746593455ac076
font_02_sfnt_off00010409.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10409 15524 bytes
SHA-256: caa52c08713a5cf1b8f662b7fabf6fbf7d29c935cd8d159d1235476b429d2ab9