Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99a358d0579cacb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-03-14 08:50:36 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 984e0658a2b6d4c2c44ab4bf75c81142 SHA-1: 43432606a2bf11f98447aba713e70fe1e421ce92 SHA-256: 99a358d0579cacb10fc3f5682faf26f20ad1d7bcae3e7aef68e62a69ec2401f3
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically for brand-impersonation credential phishing targeting Facebook. It contains numerous URLs, many hosted on disposable domains, likely serving as part of a redirection chain to the final phishing page. The presence of embedded JavaScript, though not directly analyzed here, is a common technique for exploiting PDF vulnerabilities to execute malicious code.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://pamuguvijokogag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883264/vigese.pdf.
  • 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://golowaki.ru/wix?keyword=mega+man+x+boss+intro PDF link annotation
    • http://xuzugukow.iblogger.org/pdf_file_converter_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pamuguvijokogag.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134883264/vigese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xapawijumoj.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379373/migopi_pukewifoxij_xixipowal_figusawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://frankiearvelo.com/97512113448xcd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bivoliku.mywebcommunity.org/molecular_mechanism_of_synaptic_transmission.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumonivaxozutod.mypressonline.com/47577293543.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sdfsdfsdf.shaketorch.com/mezelurapobefotuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vumamanepu.sportsontheweb.net/how_to_write_a_book_summary_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reduslimitaly-ufficiale.site/fadorikotixukkq7g7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://womivakated.iblogger.org/fukigorumosexijifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vomidujoma.scienceontheweb.net/wijegaselam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://help-verification.com/gowikafeni07ur9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lasabobobatir.22web.org/why_is_my_hoover_washing_machine_not_draining_properly.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://dolasuwukino.epizy.com/how_to_reset_pioneer_avic_5000nex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadoromutisagar.myartsonline.com/cabinet_secretaries_in_kenya_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rerodijunenema.epizy.com/82118604709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://megisaduvivegi.epizy.com/second_book_in_the_uglies_series.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://627f215e-41ba-4aa4-9906-5f9f9d117739.filesusr.com/ugd/8ab72e_09895cf72d654d97b31b370c4aa2ef0c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://poxabeb.rf.gd/what_is_the_strength_of_a_good_teacher.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://be8f41f0-9ddd-434d-ab6d-aa755a40b80d.filesusr.com/ugd/726d9c_64bcbbe4129c4f0fb954aa86d26443ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://dujizadixupodur.epizy.com/mbti_personality_type_test.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f096.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF096 6568 bytes
SHA-256: 2ba6e0c4516ae528974428ab90d2fcb845e31fc6427c3681d976df34e50bf0fe
font_01_sfnt_off000100e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100E3 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 727798d8a92a27469ab269b7d0d0cb231a729efe9a1cd3d461509c288ed7583d
font_02_sfnt_off00011284.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11284 11252 bytes
SHA-256: ed40a197fb9021d4b57f16544328a510357c11bdbdf39b5b653e90e7ca2a0bfd