Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5e31da3b1563b80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

102.5 KB Created: 2021-01-19 15:44:31 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: dcd88c37b3759bfe9d4963344188d16f SHA-1: 35374ad8e8d47b6a131c52d300b696ab8f6f63ee SHA-256: b5e31da3b1563b80bd62e893f4513cdc807e9905b0b0a41897b5e2d4ab0674b4
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document functions as a link farm, embedding numerous URLs that lead to malicious redirectors and potentially harmful content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, with heuristics pointing to a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the attack by hosting these malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/123?utm_term=good+charlotte+the+anthem+album In PDF document text
    • https://zitakusosexozi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134595565/ee5e4b77a45f8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1252641.mozfiles.com/files/1252641/fogakolinifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tivuzofep/jft8Zqv/diamond_digger_saga_android_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1171987.mozfiles.com/files/1171987/formula_car_racing_game_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wawukonuxoni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134095992/wamejotijalitaf-zobemirutoripof-jedubovoxewufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kisesawaropo/ijhf82r/teboruremoxanorubujajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mugokirupela.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681863/982d34bce5598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4411218/normal_600237ab179fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petobaxiteru.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407236/pominek-dovagalelesita-bakuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jutafegobexe/jfjheKN/pc_games_to_play_with_friends_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/senagoxosog/giLIheH/xipekuwinizavesuxaxulegox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1176882.mozfiles.com/files/1176882/57880710093.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jamolipa/jjgjgvH/26850337709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jukezeluf/tijinidasupowokixujusevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xilasisefi/wobadatavenovisepagafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nuxepiduded/livro_de_cantos_liturgicos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dudujopixejikug/dadaganazebinamuwe.pdfIn 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000146ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x146CA 2920 bytes
SHA-256: 214af57da0742dc166c9fae236394dc7a800ceb549b8d7ad4b915bb44e498b9f
font_01_sfnt_off00015123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15123 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 123aa8e4f24f3e318820854cebcb191efc35372b5445ab119818bf3052705562
font_02_sfnt_off0001628f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1628F 13008 bytes
SHA-256: 08362141fcfb70ee88483ce91fd338276177facec79aa9df1efd7f7b84df5fae