Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c38504401ec6649e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

83.8 KB Created: 2021-03-22 00:53:44 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 9a8ec5aa55aa3f3efacc8c9391299344 SHA-1: edba1748fbeeac98f575ef8ddc635b9be07e4419 SHA-256: c38504401ec6649e1d85112ef4fbf28fc76224f745d5c61c18b1cc6ccb40bc97
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous external links, many of which appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users to other PDF files. The primary lure URL, 'https://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=zodiac+signs+and+astrology+signs+meanings+and+characteristics+pdf', suggests a theme of astrology and zodiac signs to entice clicks. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and the high number of external links strongly indicate a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful or deceptive content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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://jacksth.ru/award?keyword=zodiac+signs+and+astrology+signs+meanings+and+characteristics+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fomaralunex/audit_interview_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voropa/android_games_like_diablo_offline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/jenuluvonuz/hi7idji/simplehuman_mirror_light_wont_turn_on.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4418166/normal_5febb4440c523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wiremeresegikon/fevonudamifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/kulinisokakewi/4261096171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zemigiduwagafu/what_is_the_starting_salary_of_indian_air_force.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4459174/normal_5feaf277eca0c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wizuluworafid/80060263992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sepokafaru/vAyhghg/get_followers_tags_instagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jidosatikim/available_apps_for_android_auto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/toliximozupa/ha0jegf/direzelinanuxutijanomow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/tufitijinexu/atmospheric_layers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://wowutuzineko.myartsonline.com/84594472482.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://254b3b0b-79dc-4992-827c-fd4bb3db3178.filesusr.com/ugd/f515ca_4883b45edb5d4e37a894a4e3ca4e1b78.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://bumurulepowele.myartsonline.com/18607695509.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gakilasefit.myartsonline.com/holmes_tower_quartz_heater_with_max_flow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://f1cb2ec4-a82d-4768-8a06-5236a2db220e.filesusr.com/ugd/a2e20a_ce0c0a01eb8e4eb98a5742cb543f8f37.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_off0000f3a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3A9 5628 bytes
SHA-256: 2df7a465dc776d4bb38fccca4549813ed9f8eeb238f85f4c3a94831f687f8e3b
font_01_sfnt_off000106ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106AB 11060 bytes
SHA-256: b190a967ce8ba1b94f8c8cfc3a04cdb06b338f1c1b68188470a62b881f3c1ecf
font_02_sfnt_off00012b8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12B8C 16296 bytes
SHA-256: 21d2c517cc0d2781f643886744ab2248bbe8d92ed1ab736cc2ad748918d5c6f2