Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e0fe925384e20a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.3 KB Created: 2021-03-31 17:10:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 9ade6fe1681f5b88307cb86c5c7625d2 SHA-1: 7c2af062b31d196217b00ce09caea073c4bec965 SHA-256: 9e0fe925384e20a90c9ff2d19cae6bc46fcf195686af41cdfa5c49a687ab8457
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'Mariam Khan reporting live'. The presence of PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristics, along with ClamAV detection as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan, strongly indicates malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves directing users to potentially malicious external URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

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://botokaw.ru/123?utm_term=mariam+khan+reporting+live+cast+and+crew PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417212/normal_5fcb94f696a27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wikivosunox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741322/8349554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4394061/normal_60531e1642ca0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://erethiztzj.space/my_factory_cake_tycoon_idle_tycoon_hackhhc3l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xomivevisavuwog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134852088/ratamapavurunudekav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4378153/normal_602416fe0d3db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jazofi/55619658001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4471249/normal_600caf571fb93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4367277/normal_603e4ad1aecb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://popejevolifol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134609596/1536069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499334/normal_604f06dd83df9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4460255/normal_605f61a3b21a8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://idealica-tufficiale.website/carbolic_smoke_ball_case62fyv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://monoga.space/the_lost_spires_downloadux0yl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zolerazowubow/too_big_to_fail_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377113/normal_6018eb7e7ae52.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lonapumerupa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134853684/7280749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4370541/normal_5fcbde213b5f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/726d0057-ee06-4662-b5c8-2318d32c5b9f/lafezigamuluxotolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b0b95285-e7e3-4e0c-bc17-03d6b92de66a/62547823622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/35873aba-b394-44a0-8e66-ab810b76343d/64933295065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bafdab5f-cb4c-4dab-a20f-b49a40a36e5b/austin_town_lake_trail_closed.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e7e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE7E5 5496 bytes
SHA-256: 338f8b7472101fd9aef8e89554c3c4ed8064bec09cf1c90cabd592dfd6aa7fa8
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa81.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA81 11476 bytes
SHA-256: b776ae09af6a97f7a285fe3a7b59720a2d7266c4a1eb46d34217d56191f2c92a
font_02_sfnt_off00012197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12197 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f