Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dc4fe8271066de3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-07-20 05:06:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 03fa2caf97803a157bedfb09869656cf SHA-1: 353d083e4d7f5825b74d5bb3c4ed1595d867a784 SHA-256: 7dc4fe8271066de33043446348e61e1da7d5eb734061423a5a82ae1c6ddc5230
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains an embedded URI and a heuristic firing for an SEO redirector, indicating a phishing lure. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links point towards a phishing attack designed to trick users into visiting a malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9985

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
  • 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/sq/ugae/~3/5JeRQhMeIYg/square?utm_term=aup+to+mp4+converter PDF link annotation
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf69b23f3791685666e32d/t/60f11b6fb348e55d1c511042/1626413935311/reversible_and_irreversible_changes_worksheet_for_grade_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60edf314d6548a387fd541ce/1626206997028/integration_of_cot_inverse_x_dx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60f0d1acb3a282695d2ebb07/1626395052330/put_in_different_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60bf6cad3a95e91b59aa2418/t/60ee866a1cf0e6777f32814c/1626244714097/xejajixep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac5994c6b1805bc4acbdb/t/60f32d559dfa584dc9dd212d/1626549589714/ribuwezujutaletoxixaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60edd2234c056a31b819cc6a/1626198564049/pepusobaxujop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60ec87f0dd2ac847ff7f0d8a/1626114032456/lapufudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60e9491d854c1d3b34881604/1625901341192/causes_of_supracondylar_fracture.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac52a97a1d73ddacfe14c/t/60f32a107e0b4d5f6b18e21a/1626548752467/97423547228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60aac4e0d5abe22cec5c4b22/t/60edccfccc8e436e4663bddd/1626197244284/top_west_end_shows.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_off0000d0b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0B3 15684 bytes
SHA-256: b95ff99cd3b43ff845e98cc283bfade5d4892fb0712e6fbb84a77f8875764793
font_01_sfnt_off0000f99b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF99B 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 163006d7f75e01c2f2793356e5e62bdd4d2bf009448a0302bb5df8d8b5813237
font_02_sfnt_off000110d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x110D9 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1