Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8a81b75222abd78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

157.0 KB Created: 2021-03-20 02:33:11 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 15bddd5510c98434441b457741cd000d SHA-1: 5a0c3c3a5cdeb2528adbe56de35bbc629fb95c1f SHA-256: b8a81b75222abd786f810c8e2ee5476d6695183c69f8e85e4f4dfce22aa00b2a
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, with a prominent one pointing to 'zajinet.ru' disguised as a search result for 'marine ecosystem food web producers'. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM' suggests a deliberate effort to create a network of disposable links, often used for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, but the overall structure and URL patterns are consistent with a phishing or malware delivery lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9951

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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/wix?keyword=marine+ecosystem+food+web+producers PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bizewavaxug/jhghwjc/savexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kekumumaxow/iUZkhfH/wufomagotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xukigipeduve/jfrgijd/51074640709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tijukilebag.getenjoyment.net/wordpress_admin_page_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://koponegigat.medianewsonline.com/weber_spirit_210_grill_parts_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopadaxin.mywebcommunity.org/56703175610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xaselavub/hdgfCie/tesipovuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dugibabafod/what_is_interdependence_in_ecology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitimewigupito.mypressonline.com/tabedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pilazi/90878831947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/levowexesu/58ibKBP/32120516510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gezizefefififa/ahsan_ul_kalam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gitipelut/40831769914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://2080fafa-2491-4ac3-8118-a138f33bff34.filesusr.com/ugd/822ecd_b8acf9cbbc904abeabfd7202aa98fc7c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc1cc2f4-e881-4894-b724-c9d0e7b7b2b8/80731677581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5c7253a4-5c3e-48a2-ae38-fd10bf52096d/miwazotunerodumedaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wevedikelu.epizy.com/gudasejalikinidomodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b416a2b6-3d41-47cc-956a-980b0e7edbca/kulune.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeximojela.myartsonline.com/bank_guarantee_and_letter_of_credit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitalanexu.epizy.com/spotify_er_apk_ios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b70645e9-42d7-44c6-80f2-f165c8819e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_6a5cc8063f044d5d9618fa81de2c60ca.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://nusemid.rf.gd/programming_visual_basic_.net.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sufizewuwavibu.epizy.com/government_petition_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/aec7d248-ccc7-4659-9246-7250e7ba22a8/how_to_install_verizon_fios_router_g1100.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000200e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x200E0 5492 bytes
SHA-256: 83b1149c138e1229a94c8f894db986698859b58d5fe9574da277c5d66226e80c
font_01_sfnt_off00021382.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x21382 15132 bytes
SHA-256: c5dc9bdcda09d3ef30c2d65984ce55f13d5cdbb67fd442547bec39c403a7014b
font_02_sfnt_off0002423b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2423B 16088 bytes
SHA-256: b5f1397982530d9e987604a9fc8467d56fd147c09520e12e54de27667870b356
font_03_sfnt_off000256f9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x256F9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3