Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf48107478a02d1f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.0 KB Created: 2021-03-19 15:39:02 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: b569e5187bced36e52f37e0bf45ea353 SHA-1: 50d61dfa512ce4aaaff9349ee93805ec77fea343 SHA-256: bf48107478a02d1ff8f11cd017951a6e1493511811a22c5b675821a5a226965c
166 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure related to an "Apex update" and embeds multiple URLs, one of which is identified as a potential phishing or malware distribution point. The 'SE_CLICKFIX' heuristic indicates the document instructs the user to execute a command, a common tactic for bypassing security measures and downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly suggest malicious intent, likely involving the exploitation of the PDF reader or social engineering to download a payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9992

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
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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://lozipotod.ru/123?utm_term=apex+update+not+ing PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4371272/normal_5fdafdb4e8cad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instasavephoto.com/84814089079x8tot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gukapeb.iblogger.org/child_info_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://towajemikof.iblogger.org/calcium_content_of_foods_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mists.space/2121872867r99e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4374380/normal_6003ed00cf6f2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4365655/normal_5ff0dd37da912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://disojunis.iblogger.org/seja_assertivo_livro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://giftcard-sale.store/wenijividupale6zf0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4393900/normal_6050fc280a814.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://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/370d2c7e-56b3-4dc9-ab74-c98593fb0805/how_to_learn_stock_market_trading_india.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/19278931-99cc-4773-b0f8-3f753789e0a7/76426272174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/44029d32-a745-41d4-aac0-602de8964833/car_air_conditioner_condenser_fan_not_working.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5ed7c2e7-193b-475e-b6f6-71fbdb0486ab/viper_remote_start_error_manual_transmission.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/170fb40f-96d7-4cf7-b7b9-cc00b8daf8be/22552679598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f3e4324-9a3f-4de8-bfd1-4f9c1c708233/24726295070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rokidibamufoduv.epizy.com/jubitemizukeboxukijad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8915c6e2-efea-48cc-afdb-41f81c8995d2/how_to_connect_hp_officejet_pro_8600_plus_to_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c0d75f86-25dc-4e65-905a-cb6a3a1b91ca/srimad_bhagavad_gita_gujarati_audio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f3e3f19a-7295-4cd4-a23b-f5dc9628cf30/xukefamisas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ec62f289-9e86-4abd-8bf4-45c776074b76/is_graco_snugride_snuglock_compatible_with_click_connect.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/6204ef52-3ff6-40d3-8fe9-3b25bd680720/86674233154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/632dd317-99f5-46e8-b3e7-b938e4f859ca/the_lion_and_the_mouse_story_sequence.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_off0000e550.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE550 4760 bytes
SHA-256: 10beb3bbb10e347839d78e24bd6d3eace8fc0a676c55850c43f5e7a31189ac5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000f599.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF599 11124 bytes
SHA-256: 641295948963c93068c1f765dbd70e52c7383fe3687f629c1155442a73cd5cb8
font_02_sfnt_off00011b69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11B69 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3