Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2f94897dc3b0d36…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-04-17 14:28:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 94311e674ad5143274cd6d65b0212733 SHA-1: 1d1771d2d3da1ef0a02c3fb4e00590236705c85f SHA-256: d2f94897dc3b0d36ed4f67c0bfb80d3cbfb215ba3f9d5f2e81e763926e739d6e
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of external links, forming a link farm hosted on multiple domains. One heuristic indicates visible command execution instructions within the document, suggesting it may attempt to leverage system tools. The primary intent appears to be directing users to a network of linked PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation or to serve as a distribution point for further malicious activity.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9993

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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 http://mindforyou.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636907/131636907.html#fool+for+you+sheet+music+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://shopperevaluationsurvey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405948/bijenexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mitchellglover.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398008/2854226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fredericksburgghosts.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070983/75f621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://selambalaj.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551271/9474623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://stevenjdenton.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604694/5638520.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://allperth.net/uploads/1/3/0/4/130436209/949320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://3003exposition.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739996/bonaxutaje_fepinagerego_letokafodos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://oteccoachinglive.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130483445/9b3cb1c3de782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memeunion.org/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291434/51d2ce7348c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nocdn.com/score/stats/view?score_id=5107203In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.5In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.0200000000000000004163336342344337026588618755340576171875},{In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.040000000000000000832667268468867405317723751068115234375In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.png@500x660?no-cache=1579865928&bgclr=ffffffIn PDF document text
    • https://creativecommons.0/In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.jsonp?revision=1527103124&no-cache=1587122933In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.youtube.99In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.mp3?revision=1527103124&no-cache=1587122933In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.item-list:last-childIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.05000000000000000277555756156289135105907917022705078125In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.1In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.netIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625},{In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.0In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.midIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore..)ThisIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.png@180x252?no-cache=1579865928&bgclr=ffffffIn PDF document text
    • https://musescoreIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://musescore.com/static/musescore/scoredata/gen/3/0/2/5107203/86aadfe00034bb93c8eed951afaff58eafef8140/score_0.com/user/28818643In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/static/musescore/scoredata/gen/3/0/2/5107203/86aadfe00034bb93c8eed951afaff58eafef8140/scoreIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/static/public/img/musescore/piano_rollIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/user/28818643/scores/5107203/embedIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/song/fool_for_you-2049245In macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://www.com/static/musescore/scoredata/gen/3/0/2/5107203/86aadfe00034bb93c8eed951afaff58eafef8140/score.com/static/musescore/userdata/avatar/default.com/user/28818643/scores/5107203In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.musescore.com/static/musescore/scoredata/gen/3/0/2/5107203/86aadfe00034bb93c8eed951afaff58eafef8140/space.com%2Fuser%2F28818643%2Fscores%2F5107203In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/static/musescore/scoredata/gen/3/0/2/5107203/86aadfe00034bb93c8eed951afaff58eafef8140/score_0.200000000000000011102230246251565404236316680908203125In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/ug/In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.comIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://www.com/user/28818643/scores/5107203In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.org/licenses/by-nc/4.com/watch?v=L-42iZef7y4In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/user/21585386/scores/5634470/piano-tutorial?from=youtube_shareIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.ultimate-guitar.com/song/talking_to_the_moon-1844428In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/static/musescore/userdata/cover/5/d/5/28818643.jpg?cache=0In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/artist/bruno_mars-150429In PDF document text
    • https://musescore..youtube.com/user/21585386/scores/5634470/piano-tutorial?from=youtube_shareIn PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/user/28818643In PDF document text
    • https://musescore.com/static/musescore/scoredata/gen/3/0/2/5107203/86aadfe00034bb93c8eed951afaff58eafef8140/score_0.com/user/28818643/scores/5107203In 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
    +4 more URL(s)

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC6 9540 bytes
SHA-256: 76caf2e88d03c00bca8b5060f6d9222d740c9a0943205fb3f856ec6de590af74