Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5c85a8f97fd3ce8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2021-02-26 00:53:53 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: e4b98791424d921add276eefe4a5629c SHA-1: 5a20e64271a84ba1de78b08433646966dc3435b5 SHA-256: b5c85a8f97fd3ce83ec6cc8e53072e8c3e87ac1bb0509d7d30b203cab94b8553
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to disposable hosting and are part of a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata related to wkhtmltopdf and a keyword search, further supporting the lure to a malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.8150

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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
  • 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://baarspo.ru/award?keyword=wendy%2527s+spicy+chicken+nuggets+nutrition PDF link annotation
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