Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3b95e74b655b177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.3 KB Created: 2021-04-04 01:09:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 0bba8241f625b8b393ffa1a35c25c7b4 SHA-1: bb962e4ff6ed89c92dab943e9e8c4eee7587a921 SHA-256: b3b95e74b655b1775a6461cbcc1774986e60301754773f8448f1f40f2c757b75
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which are part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content, such as the PDF hosted at http://ch-data-2a8fv9s.pw/125174327233q7x6.pdf. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure for downloading content, and the presence of a 'Security Bypass' heuristic indicates an attempt to disable security measures. ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature, classifying it as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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 http://ch-data-2a8fv9s.pw/125174327233q7x6.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/latufenaw/altair_inspire_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://onlinetiser.website/zenwise_digestive_enzymes_walmartpwl9r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tetenifeme/what_is_the_reid_interview_technique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://natorg.fun/90437727190be08f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://blancop.xyz/adguard_premium_apk_final4zse9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://goproonly.com/seedfolks_book_trailer3nue8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/metubevozisul/vederofoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pubguckazan.com/star_wars_saga_character_sheet_fillable0wu2r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/rimejiguvif/87307917199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://voztrans.ru/great_unclean_one_datasheetmvuvv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/wb/ENAH/~3/3IgsHNHpEfs/wb?keyword=download%20film%20the%20maze%20runner%201%20sub%20indo%20480pPDF link annotation
    • https://bf23b77b-49a9-4bef-a898-a03cfb94aefa.filesusr.com/ugd/134172_aec60eced54d4aa2a34e61bf203f2a86.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://203aa715-7352-46b1-b16b-5d0aeeaa27a2.filesusr.com/ugd/0582e0_5621719ca70140f9a147343527ea1dc8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c4e42e93-254c-4ba8-b495-737f84002742.filesusr.com/ugd/ddb60a_9f9ed9a7cf3649ae83d6c7aab934d51e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d115d978-d96a-40c8-9764-5d959708fc35.filesusr.com/ugd/436160_4b5993a10bf94581bc2247faa8bf3c0f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8b5ac0f3-2bc4-49a6-9a99-2541af31b215.filesusr.com/ugd/f2ef67_574e3d8bd3d0493ab4a736dbabbace8c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://05e27880-d5e1-4d3d-8428-ba943e9300bc.filesusr.com/ugd/b56239_043c0f848dbe478c8fa3d5f90311a5a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a39ac558-8fe8-437d-9e10-dc9402d6cb9c.filesusr.com/ugd/1ebe14_f4c01022a1f64bed9e74858690d6cc58.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_off000140c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x140C4 6040 bytes
SHA-256: 4e8ab03e8f58982f25df063551ec9bca5e3c1a704c90d495e42fc10baeafd76a
font_01_sfnt_off0001554c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1554C 11888 bytes
SHA-256: f71718f43d33cd65484b06945f0e9e945734b1bbaefd57a3d51cfe4c7d99bce0
font_02_sfnt_off00017dfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17DFA 16332 bytes
SHA-256: a79673c45bca31144ddacc4b3ece782595bdeb2f2765ebdd0c54287bc80b2fed