Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80fef730ab175bb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.1 KB Created: 2021-03-23 15:14:59 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 852e68d81a3b0c48366b98111f5f7c47 SHA-1: 6f259baf8eb0dd5c169f2e9213edf7c2a63a63ed SHA-256: 80fef730ab175bb7b594a271d4dc9296d0a2250767777a08506fa5fa937dbfcd
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary URL, https://ponafet.ru/award?keyword=geometric+sequence+notes+pdf, indicates a potential lure for users searching for specific document types. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous external links points towards a phishing or malicious redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

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://ponafet.ru/award?keyword=geometric+sequence+notes+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4404740/normal_5fecae9a1a1bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474475/normal_6054502f410f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4476758/normal_60146528750ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4471250/normal_5ffe52cf09af9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446045/normal_5fe69a26df985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471082/normal_5fd2d3a09d91a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xexiwimelogodit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134593193/b80563eae68a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiwigerisen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408459/ranazajolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4466366/normal_5fc836b89515f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sojowidaz/3hjCLgl/capsule_function_biology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vusexojepaxeva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134096357/damet-rokuwopomigo-jekegemuluwo-ripagadisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4489058/normal_5fc830827c13a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4473049/normal_602529a0a08c9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xopilinunerixaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380618/benutifinobelagig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pijatopug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135303623/5d6c549463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485580/normal_60588b192ad80.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sebazisop/ch1jhpx/among_us_mod_menu_android_mobile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://ca39a19f-16f9-469f-ab0b-65ec0463b8d0.filesusr.com/ugd/cc9b97_16b7ef7cd66c40e8ba3f16dda38f3c1a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b6a8c1df-cc56-4a83-9656-1906abab9458/romeo_y_julieta_vintage_cigar_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/40727ff1-5057-4a54-89fe-28b8fdc967c8/wadujawasutetevedugute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://901c4554-6fda-40bf-8344-1f1538f5dc06.filesusr.com/ugd/a76634_c599d090fa594260af691de54e0c901d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2e8e3215-33bf-4fe1-bc67-b38dac560527.filesusr.com/ugd/269bb8_0976ea5ed5734ea58a5e9f103f6df91d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/94f20ce0-7585-4bf0-9028-12fd6692b7f7/graco_magnum_x5_trueairless_paint_sprayer_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88fd1055-1d48-4c56-9f1f-feb6f82ef52f/kaplan_dat_book_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://85ed388a-52e0-4e79-9737-9d4b769dda71.filesusr.com/ugd/bb10c5_93a5ee56a1084c13b881668577034c1c.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ef23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF23 5216 bytes
SHA-256: 4c86d1d69f5333fd06067b4e1020579880faf1f93cf0329aa8fe310698e98bf3
font_01_sfnt_off000100d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100D2 10720 bytes
SHA-256: 525e67b3d5624dcbc9e41b3d153e92aebe9f7ac140148aa7b44399d4452bd4db