Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2a27655a2c56310…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-03-29 15:14:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 05d44f47146a6407ad147c720ef29aab SHA-1: 679842521b34564e55ece7f9e1ab4c90b614ea03 SHA-256: a2a27655a2c56310022d6b885789042b9f2060131677099a23895d6bc92931a1
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to similarly structured URLs on different domains. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a title related to dramatic plays and references the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to potentially malicious content hosted on the numerous extracted URLs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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 http://74-123-73-55.mgwnet.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130274017/130274017.html#obras+dramaticas+cortas+de+3+personajes+mujeres PDF link annotation
    • http://www.stressedoutsoul.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130588798/masixun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://studiobrickhouse.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130621304/dizereruxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://squirrellysheep.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739322/wejodenigunegi-bixiveredomujex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://powhere.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163690/d3b356df40a074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://greatereastimports.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639872/fomuridefol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cascadeladyhoops.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604631/kixotujexog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://brunchdelivered.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776572/bujoruzusidifopal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rimmermusicgroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130288320/gemodofexodifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itsnothingood.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435960/040a5c7a77d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://leewadeaccountants.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590666/0ca2904d7a539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pastoraaronowens.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740464/ranipepufa_zujupilewel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pitmonperformancecycles.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130546742/9277670.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jean-frank-stark.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130488157/7631981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://minuku.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130289379/1555682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://staywright.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639304/693593ea5fe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://friendsoflakebarkley.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639774/xumamebava.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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007219.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7219 9316 bytes
SHA-256: 4baa1c3543103f5a4bff8aaf80b3f0ec5b0b77de30cee7343f4691708cc24405