Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a35c87cd9bedc991…

MALICIOUS

PDF

122.5 KB Created: 2021-02-15 11:53:48 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 3b9d9ee494de86619f0580456924cc44 SHA-1: 5c9662bf557086e6e2a09f7a17e06572bc9c1876 SHA-256: a35c87cd9bedc991ecd27b44536cf7d2b69cfcbb266b738ab3ed0502ee2260e6
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to link farms hosted on disposable domains or known malicious redirectors. Heuristics indicate it's a link farm designed to distribute malicious content, with one URL specifically flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely phishing or malware distribution via these links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://yafferge.ru/wix?keyword=cualitativa+y+cuantitativa+quimica In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/riketumes/GRjfifu/ww2_battle_games_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486548/normal_60135adee9f0d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kexujutexaz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858540/gukaxekibogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/relulapezele/7XhadhM/vanilla_cupcake_recipe_from_scratch_easy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446636/normal_5ff2d2323ddb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://papuleni.22web.org/insider_reporting_osc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ketosimple.online/what_are_the_4_main_components_of_a_mental_status_examcaawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/konidadelan/hcjcslV/39225559084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4450864/normal_5fd218380e08e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wezefumuge.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134614004/gubizesidux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gouliwer.online/galactocele_por_ultrasonidogfk81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kuzaxepigi/bPic2Um/tofonubilirinud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/minamojazi/anhiz2M/huey_s_beyond_burger_calories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://norusukesalija.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134356509/koriridajafese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vixidijogaritix.22web.org/critical_theory_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://serekarivevug.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407867/saviwobo-zonapefidoxoj-zanibexovuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://esclick.pro/74593917620ad86z.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://websecurer.tech/zikurftipj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://lusiromipu.epizy.com/car_accident_news_report_today_toronto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zebigibozudival.epizy.com/excel_template_to_keep_track_of_passwords.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001868a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1868A 4864 bytes
SHA-256: eedae20648927f293140ffa82ac82186489616f9d5821a883a3664fbeb1c9182
font_01_sfnt_off00019717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19717 13384 bytes
SHA-256: 1c4df13dd1a8b0f2a80e103796f55d52d44d7937f455a129041ac5c3c1a714f7
font_02_sfnt_off0001c270.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C270 16784 bytes
SHA-256: c1ce675d4e6b981424d79d70dacba0cf02314c91c8e286fe87f1e5c976596670