Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e03e57c55e167f59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-04-13 03:54:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ffa6e7bed34ce92cc99a94a88751f87d SHA-1: 602ce6583e10fca4d4048e4db1f4cb6724bdf90f SHA-256: e03e57c55e167f59a2e0cd05e90fbcf85bf9b141324f86db4cd55bddce9ea0d7
96 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document was identified as malicious due to a heuristic detecting a large number of external links, characteristic of a link farm or phishing lure. The document body contains garbled text and references to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was programmatically generated. The primary attack pattern involves directing users to a multitude of external URLs, such as http://montanapurewood.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969963/130969963.html#organisms+in+the+phylum+annelida+are+protostome+or+deuterostome, which likely host malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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://montanapurewood.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969963/130969963.html#organisms+in+the+phylum+annelida+are+protostome+or+deuterostome PDF link annotation
    • http://paradoxbarbers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813876/fesofaziduza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viamediapromos.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740183/bujinukebumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://worldmarblegranite.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607278/rigaxudumo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://skspackaging.net/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551065/febomikavetumub-xuveme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://viamediapromos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437604/7971145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://through-the-eyes-of-another.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130476669/wovewivepitalonapon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://petitesilesdefrance.fr/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407253/vivalemajofuxopowube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gem-empire.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130551880/2644165.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63AC 8056 bytes
SHA-256: 369523d1495db3648c45e827f7cc6039275ca47ab18da769ad30d5034e199793
font_01_sfnt_off000082f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82F4 16224 bytes
SHA-256: da097a8c459adbfdf1b1d97412e41569b305acf822c6e113ff3e46e38a168572