Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7305e50fd8ee150…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.9 KB Created: 2021-03-22 22:21:20 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: d56f5d3d829ab9ca07c652fe38fa2323 SHA-1: 3c0474d5341d6ce2e24d601556acf48d1fa289a5 SHA-256: a7305e50fd8ee150635d1fed590df2ce2b3882c9b4dc6fcc3a1fc4b105c92f4a
226 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many pointing to disposable domains and employing SEO link farm tactics, indicating a malicious intent to redirect users. The presence of a link to 'mestorating.ru' and the ClamAV detection as 'Pdf.Phishing.Trojan' strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution campaign. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and link farm behavior are indicative of techniques used to deliver malicious payloads or redirect to phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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://mezovuduw.ru/123?utm_term=aldiko+book+reader+app+free PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/ganuniwiku/cjbkWgf/franchise_hockey_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379615/normal_5fd2d651a8930.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://javexediwoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134584379/ecfc96151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fastnoutservice.ru/employee_disciplinary_action_form_word_templatebonvj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://driveformclanemilwaukee.com/824464336050vb1v.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kosibowo/ibxibie/74680739605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4385424/normal_5fe17052d1116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://memetunariva.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/f374136a2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sojebelevenex/accutire_ms-4021b_battery.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4455198/normal_5feb72e46a711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bawigadumifop.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134494387/bulemawuraga-pokuwaxasafub-nifawekawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gepidoduxaw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135324144/8079828.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artyom.guru/kenwood_ts-570dg_reviewj4nig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zojixemem/8ahgjgz/vigesefidalurinevobuxiwus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mestorating.ru/nolodutanubevuxodibuliwodfubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wesaduleb/jcqicgh/no_speed_limit_sign_nsw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4478932/normal_60500f80ee221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rapovixovuti/jhf5haH/make_it_perfect_game_voodoo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jonenatone.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872225/6ebc9044f87ebd9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zolewiko/iYjeijx/spacex_dm2_crew_dragon_mission.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cleanup-sale.site/960940632736s4sl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/letarezetap/BgfBgji/jidetur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kosadara/jfhiyjd/star_trek_starfleet_command_pc_trainer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vuxalirudidel/amityville_horror_movie_1979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zotipimesaza/djixbvN/pufikusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nefagolom/73056765561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000100fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x100FB 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 815ce466092327356e353553448bbcaf6d94562822224adaa9358fcc5f41a042
font_01_sfnt_off00011232.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11232 10432 bytes
SHA-256: 18ba4d036fecf38dcc721bfbb2dbf1218a50ef43df54a9887480642de0bc762d