Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae483677287c1f11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.8 KB Created: 2021-03-09 21:45:43 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: f155c06bdbdce95843a5216ab607f58c SHA-1: 97eebd03daefca3f42acdf809d71e40557a0aaeb SHA-256: ae483677287c1f11238542576741c550a91419953905b457fe8ec67877c1d52d
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious by ML classification and ClamAV, indicating it likely serves as a phishing or trojan delivery mechanism. The presence of numerous external links, including a link farm on disposable hosting, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to malicious content. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and external links point towards a malicious intent, possibly involving the exploitation of PDF vulnerabilities or social engineering.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • 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://zajinet.ru/strik?utm_term=sv98ln+won%2527t+turn+on PDF link annotation
    • http://logoped-samara.ru/bunn_slush_machine_manualvoztx.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://catsism.com/47763985960sp52p.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4414153/normal_601911006c64a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448540/normal_60188ae4beb60.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/pabelewexo/jhaaib0/ridur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kajojetugap/Ljh9Pe5/toefl_exam_preparation_material.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lnstagaram-verifiedbadges-from.com/kahoot_theme_sheet_music_clarinetlfob4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jugomuzuteb/NxBhcgh/hornblower_cruises_dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4465539/normal_6037a23556f47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454056/normal_5fc5e8b33797d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4369307/normal_5fce0ac5c45bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474719/normal_60306580722c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474218/normal_601656153f28d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fortysgjdk.fun/bufekewukawefubonijamusen5y30u.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kekelivig/3ha5ohe/48908082206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373985/normal_60337532c5e72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vuranataxu/hfDQIZv/kilamifaxubipimasige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4485698/normal_601d5eba3f007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393644/normal_600f733f35f10.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365575/normal_5fd746c3b8f64.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383573/normal_5fe5c2e45ba20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://26c1613e-5d28-4fa3-89cb-3d2c9ab59faf.filesusr.com/ugd/fe83c3_5d3f59e10bb24191b279ce164113e3b7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4a0f17ac-6ce6-4c05-9546-25c48d39d9f7.filesusr.com/ugd/cd79e3_f0209e5afeaf426083a9d9474d43657b.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000eee9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEE9 4928 bytes
SHA-256: e2b7aa62470fb67eac80134f34819f262018f0e3175fa5d71bff5d6bf38fbacb
font_01_sfnt_off0000ffde.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFFDE 11468 bytes
SHA-256: 3f50896140061270fc8bdadd88750e3e9889637836b4689199c66203f3f1c6cd