Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a5d4c879927f54ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.5 KB Created: 2021-03-31 00:18:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 45ec3a2317ca42bb1580e15677c855a5 SHA-1: 221b0773c7cbd3f30a99a8b9042bf48cb233a958 SHA-256: a5d4c879927f54ef3fac34aff356c8abe861ebd020d8a60667a78e53cf17e788
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many pointing to SEO-optimized content, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The primary URL, https://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=what+type+of+disability+is+developmental+delay, is identified as a redirector, likely leading to a malicious site. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, consistent with a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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.
  • 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.
  • 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://kuzutuzo.ru/strik?utm_term=what+type+of+disability+is+developmental+delay PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4473892/normal_5ffadc00e7514.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4417030/normal_5feb486e2ec51.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/paxuvagal/ms_sql_server_installer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465908/normal_5feebf3f3ffcc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bokesaxigalul.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776824/6379b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mabamigetope.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493328/22979c4a25a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377647/normal_5fdb0281309ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422135/normal_600c68923e84c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368240/normal_6056754be11d2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dusimajigedavim.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453199/bevujapebutejezojad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/satuja/maxixajaguzebisonas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vokavubibobudew.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135316357/81562d567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4465539/normal_6009928cc11a5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4419410/normal_603b0a6b7a83f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5b2221d7-1b44-4c1d-bd25-6b20b8ed802f/jogisukamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/751a56b2-fa9f-4795-82fd-f97ae59fc474/hcnp_networking_study_guide_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://52468903-0e2d-47c5-babb-61e1d305d291.filesusr.com/ugd/32777b_c894500d280c4605bb56d2e0a0a67d6b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ebba3e40-d49f-4cc8-b137-373bb1124918.filesusr.com/ugd/384ea4_4d5af11f172f40c7bb52043dd72a04a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56bca285-71ac-4ac2-9a93-b6e24c81bcd7/20746862857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d102a0f2-001f-4998-bb0a-88ac30ac05b5.filesusr.com/ugd/771ea4_17d973446ceb470cbb1887f56acd3368.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://69cf8a46-0d3d-4b71-8fd1-93df925da18e.filesusr.com/ugd/e4064d_734bd283e76c41dda9a0cce06600016b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/690e4045-120d-4605-a572-5dd34e052486/monster_vegan_cookies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abaaaae4-9231-44fc-b12c-ad55ebcc68e7.filesusr.com/ugd/2ca09c_ba3afb0257a64495900bab213600f10a.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00014800.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14800 5500 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab02d804ffc3e96b603c0015d289a4f0ee2034df3b68761b2692cd7491ce074
font_01_sfnt_off00015ab0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15AB0 11880 bytes
SHA-256: 19344181a89d474c3cc56a1172e5e2081ea1045743c668f00648e3a0aadb3cff
font_02_sfnt_off00018327.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18327 16112 bytes
SHA-256: 275d0ef8f619a30f75d5b67021c85ffe51dbf44d82a44ecb2d07128ff93f9399