Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab0c659b84f7444e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.6 KB Created: 2021-04-01 19:56:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: d0bc4ea1c0bfd54150d0805d93d9c567 SHA-1: 7fdb74a87da133d22209ab03ad7bf3787fbf4d5b SHA-256: ab0c659b84f7444e018e4eecfc09f18d8abe8d4bd3214c0c6cb7cf4cb4654f36
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and an ML classifier, specifically flagged as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The embedded URLs, such as 'https://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=anatomy+and+physiology+of+human+body+systems+pdf', are likely part of this redirection scheme.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9853

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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://pelibifir.ru/award?keyword=anatomy+and+physiology+of+human+body+systems+pdf PDF link annotation
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    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
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    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://246406bc-bb0d-4f29-baed-d8a6153a9543.filesusr.com/ugd/3ddeef_0af1861b384542fe82fe89b8747f8292.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4f6c49ad-35c2-4e1b-a50e-a4ca4816ee30.filesusr.com/ugd/a28dad_883b8c1b577f4a389f8bed34427387be.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
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    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFBE 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 05cf67b36bf6b6d057a66fed8bf351f7200b167292cd775dcef8d41c6bf2b02c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f234.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF234 10672 bytes
SHA-256: b2a3e4499f1d65c04415be6d2bc7968a0bc50024be1e97d1b20669b816ae5091
font_02_sfnt_off0001166b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1166B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3

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