Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9410e25aa3f9a7d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.5 KB Created: 2020-03-08 22:18:27 Authoring application: Inkscape First seen: 2026-06-12
MD5: 55d4963fa04467af7b8942f7253e3e92 SHA-1: 2d6d8ff2e30c875db208c8d9f4374287cec51bd4 SHA-256: 9410e25aa3f9a7d83884001557a4a983240d4860541a3735067cef9377fe9de7
72 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a lure for downloading a game cheat, indicated by the document body text and a heuristic for a download button. It also contains embedded URLs, with some pointing to 'ascendercorp.com', suggesting a potential phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection further supports its malicious nature.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier suspicious score 0.4194

Heuristics 4

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://www.ascendercorp.com/ PDF link annotation
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#PDF link annotation
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/PDF link annotation
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/PDF link annotation
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/PDF link annotation
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/PDF link annotation
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/PDF link annotation
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLPDF link annotation

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000922c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x922C 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 61271215975c51ac3398c66ed5d943cdb6513cdf63eb78584c97261d670453e4
font_01_sfnt_off0000a411.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA411 10584 bytes
SHA-256: 3706e20529824f4ccfcf2a0d304b789966b345b55916c408c03db2d97c979fa6

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