Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db4437c002820b03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2021-03-22 01:49:56 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: e6cc73d7bd1d8a113811c295e3a0ad55 SHA-1: 634a15f1ca543e43c3f72c785853561404b4d5a5 SHA-256: db4437c002820b0349d37e50b23203ab38d09dc1408ecc3af37d59a40b14753c
236 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many of which are SEO redirectors, and specifically impersonates iCloud with a call-to-action link. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely credential phishing or a downloader. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and URL heuristics point to a phishing lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 7

  • 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 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=arcadia+group+annual+report+2016+pdf.
  • 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://leonvi.ru/123?utm_term=arcadia+group+annual+report+2016+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368781/normal_6022c5239dba0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wiwuxot/papafilivoveludufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/voxipanovigepiv/risk_of_rain_2_huntress_item_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/liluvad/saxadofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/likerajatob/dragons_of_faerun_3.5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://totalcreditcheck.info/sorowaxunizergzbv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mokuwanibof/38189286666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://familyit.info/daily_language_review_grade_30l2m9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/mubemutolewe/37051738490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trikotoria.ru/52596760431u3zad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wiremeresegikon/happy_birthday_bhai_video_status.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://reactivascotia2020.com/does_apple_tv_have_verizon_fios_app56u5i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4493195/normal_6050df249d6f9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alkim.xyz/80016361qe2b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/safenalavojuwu/easl_guidelines_hepatitis_b_2009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://64e18f06-8a0e-4dc1-8427-9dd81b4bff36.filesusr.com/ugd/baa514_e4d2c3fdf92f400aaa628e24e4c64d9f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rameselutem.epizy.com/adobe_premiere_pro_download_free_full_version_hindi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tefolinum.epizy.com/plan_architecture_maison.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aa6d2f86-95e2-42cc-897e-6bbd71c3a116.filesusr.com/ugd/78daac_1afeb373beab4d098c328d8ac5bfec79.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://vefuvepux.epizy.com/split_merge_files_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nelaxufap.rf.gd/bibezomonigexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://abc5f1b3-ad37-4660-b048-d9bff2240d70.filesusr.com/ugd/a1fb68_27edde40cef6473690089ec83ee01e4f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://rozafibadajowo.epizy.com/18591885512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://77483064-5892-4b52-b419-66e751946b77.filesusr.com/ugd/ef7b09_8290e6fedebd4cf8b775c5e46f195135.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a815f367-2516-4b88-9496-eed07d5c1eb7.filesusr.com/ugd/665c20_744ab6dc6e29498abab9b966d4fa69d9.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd23.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD23 5616 bytes
SHA-256: 661ff0f2fb723caf3f04d8215cddd55ad6f52721cbf798d08f61f3846f7f0fff
font_01_sfnt_off0000f05a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF05A 11376 bytes
SHA-256: 975c84ee56adf4b016c90064596635e6b63e6a32e7d3688161331e1409a9cc3c