Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7dce90c43e21d4fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

101.4 KB Created: 2021-03-19 14:19:52 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 7e8a997a74929b0442effd5814536d86 SHA-1: 699341a904a467477a1c0aafa11dce6458493845 SHA-256: 7dce90c43e21d4fa0a67756519b642d06b8958e8a40ddaeb0c4d7f7ec43ef79e
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM indicate a large number of links within a small PDF, likely for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution.

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
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/wix?keyword=cengage+accounting+chapter+5+homework+answers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462345/normal_6009e51eba211.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lilomovetum/ieCgcjb/rabbit_s_magic_adventures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muzhskoizhurnal.ru/bratz_bunny_boo_logoz2iec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sidamebo/uywgjSG/mibubujawuxosin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sozuxope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134873608/tubarizig-zujod-tifej-mapelubokudizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4466657/normal_6032cd504fe3b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xisulufi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134870666/seter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoop-ff.ru/best_portable_clothes_steamer_2020wcg5t.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kunimoxifagi/Ajxjbhj/paxeneguwefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446399/normal_5ff7682ad715b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/takabalal/higJ4Wx/accidente_cerebrovascular_hemorragico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4478703/normal_5fe1f9abc4938.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d6b7b3c7-8429-4d82-9d75-5d5d09e763cc.filesusr.com/ugd/a8c229_5fc96eb76aa746f0ac7196985fd819a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://091a8774-b5bd-4fb7-8799-8d1ca0ca44ad.filesusr.com/ugd/8716ab_d16356538a9f4264b6a99433b299e402.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://tuzevuvenadeg.rf.gd/pijiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leniwijob.epizy.com/76743136645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://44bb6ee8-a0fe-4f72-890f-0f0a2fec05cf.filesusr.com/ugd/b65acf_9471d6347aee4646b51284985c829146.pdf?index=trueIn 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
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00015c1c.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x15C1C 23304 bytes
SHA-256: 8dd4cbf7e204a395fc33c933435e1d9833bcf9e7d3a78b1393243572f974e337
font_00_sfnt_off0001204c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1204C 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 11121420c358d9840f6ba935057abbfd4576d1858ec1495ccec0cf29727cdc07
font_01_sfnt_off000132f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x132F0 12004 bytes
SHA-256: 6c12f868a47d77a1e31336d0f1308c575d324ef20f273eb844f4c9ae48c0db0a