Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94176fe8ad864c44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

98.0 KB Created: 2021-02-28 22:11:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 6b3330e502f92de239703d15f5f3e2c1 SHA-1: 942d140eb1a3ddfad18e27206c4d46187a1f0bb1 SHA-256: 94176fe8ad864c4445968b21943a2166f75723e732fbe8b0bdd3c1d867947182
276 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which point to SEO redirectors and potential phishing sites, as indicated by the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' and 'SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH' heuristics. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of embedded URLs and the overall structure suggest an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious websites, likely for credential harvesting or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://dokivubugu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688884/wiwipizefe.pdf.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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://soxebez.ru/award?keyword=intro+test+b+dressage+2019 PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4482206/normal_5fdf87d8397f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473375/normal_5fc6906207c48.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gdztut.com/run_on_sentence_practice_4th_grade9nhrl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dokivubugu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134688884/wiwipizefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4493579/normal_5ffeb250d92d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4426063/normal_600138ccdde0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jobalexaxikut.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134892204/525452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digexuvin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814990/zifaruvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://govnosiakxws.online/kumidagolenabuzuxozikaj4tzl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kelageketisefuv/how_often_does_a_harley_need_to_be_serviced.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruxofepugoloma.rf.gd/36092655802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zetituri/61816176258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fidotetunuxezi.epizy.com/anything_but_typical.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kavalukato/putigekap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zabevog/kunena_forum_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dumupa/7852141049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/luborinizu/cricket_tournament_flyer_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sesijesule/pixoretiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vazisi/90244760199.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://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000143b4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x143B4 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 023b32833b92b0d7d5a24d523acad1d39e99090fb90154a8771740c66823554a
font_01_sfnt_off0001567e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1567E 10592 bytes
SHA-256: c27aa596656efe7f5a02f25f31d3b2106fd1fc41798990b85576a4339d8bfa31