Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba4e42f320f44e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.2 KB Created: 2021-04-02 23:05:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 2ccd38977eb197f036447e9a47d48a94 SHA-1: 5735d847fe6c9923fe741aa0a1e844609a03246d SHA-256: cba4e42f320f44e9702336f126e69ed1beaee6f266385ec33f51c7fe4984ccff
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to disposable hosting, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the overall structure and heuristics point to a malicious intent to drive traffic to external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.
  • 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://resalured.ru/award?keyword=cateterismo+vesical+en+neonatos+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://jelusuvobirolen.mywebcommunity.org/bojik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fekowepiz.mywebcommunity.org/binary_logistic_regression_spss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://sipanokule.onlinewebshop.net/migusadatekob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wutesejib.onlinewebshop.net/15351785034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://87da31d5-d184-45e7-a456-0ad082c8bd65.filesusr.com/ugd/55e94a_347aeb737a75411bbfc5eb2119ad4597.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/258aa163-7bc8-4546-beb3-4f47963f4fc2/mutants_and_masterminds_2e_to_3e_conversion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lolunoxij.myartsonline.com/autocad_civil_3d_2020_tutorial_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/865a1f4c-f52c-477e-917e-1c9a14f08c3d/chevy_p30_step_van_specs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://b9e1b105-38e0-4bbf-baad-90de1e2021e1.filesusr.com/ugd/432b07_a69a048c93bf43eebc1e0f8f3525aabe.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4c49b399-dc16-4174-befb-63d3c5f616f6/48204404349.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d5894c85-ca6d-4339-b887-ab7a12e259d0/25310424178.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rimalapotozuf.epizy.com/25276748618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/895131fd-5aaa-4df8-b79f-3dbf79c35951/vajafikubovogufefover.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ce3a146a-d504-4efb-981c-4593fb85d965.filesusr.com/ugd/5b5da7_708e1858e0084111aff58554737f2a17.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c50c9334-cb1a-457c-a813-a98d1be16806/migadodagefubakefovebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7698b0c8-7d4b-4a7a-a8f9-99fe92f35492/roref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://288c7b4b-0494-48f6-8ee2-9dd519b96b0a.filesusr.com/ugd/a107db_445552040c124857af22839424668230.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://xidozuk.rf.gd/93079394529.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ed62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xED62 5264 bytes
SHA-256: e82219531a92a1b06a816d8a71ed4ae3088eacb13227f513b6ed045762489f03
font_01_sfnt_off0000ff37.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFF37 11864 bytes
SHA-256: 3a61b47d92aedeed35064f335b687cda429a1825b5008af7fa6dc64879fe8f13