Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d5f7ae146a78a65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2021-03-13 23:22:45 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 219572aae78a12dcf91715edf9e3686e SHA-1: 17cd26ef24180af993fa2af76e0a50ab1e24e8d8 SHA-256: 8d5f7ae146a78a657465fed6d2365d7f5748f6cfbf39c53b276d59bf9c534d98
182 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or known malicious redirectors. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to search terms and file types, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.7977

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/award?keyword=careless+whisper+tab+guitar+pdf In PDF document text
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    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mojivikapeti/how_to_concrete_mix_design.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fruit-citrus.space/dungeon_quest_script_october2ntda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmaider.com/64899963043g8avx.pdfIn PDF document text
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