Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e11fc8cabdc5bee6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB Created: 2021-03-14 04:47:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 9ea552f8542d4ec6e8c0a0b19e00fa0c SHA-1: 7b33718887f046c7405ff0be8331b74826194cba SHA-256: e11fc8cabdc5bee636d060404a873e9232358c6c065d36835029e988217490db
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It functions as a link farm, embedding numerous external URLs that point to other PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further payloads. The presence of multiple links on disposable hosting services and the use of a potentially malicious domain like ponafet.ru suggest a campaign aimed at driving traffic or phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the structure itself is the attack vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://ponafet.ru/award?keyword=mathematical+induction+problems+pdf PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xizubulizexe/dJTgjHA/dr_driving_apk_mod_ios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lorotukogof/zibJ1hd/animal_jam_unblocked_hacked.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xarozowuzosa/LrFhgPI/wulopebagogafi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://votilolezin.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307270/9c213fb83efe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mifavawuzizadax.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135977912/ccb0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/niririga/jg2qgoU/gun_sounds_effects_pack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/buvaboda/icMj0pR/ruzenuve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://julivojurukumu.sportsontheweb.net/vishnu_sahasranama_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/rizuwevize/ggK9lp1/laser_quest_modesto_california.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lobabinuladeri.medianewsonline.com/64906471435.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gukovafax/kw6Torc/30513032994.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zotepuzexalebox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135397030/nuvebesalizol_zalufevize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vadosixajobirug.mygamesonline.org/divezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tamejenonisi/cieicED/31443660159.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7f29f189-4afd-41bb-a717-9637173bbdad/47846146996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/77e96ffe-d784-4473-8ecc-87b9788e5379/wine_enthusiast_18-bottle_dual_zone_max_compressor_wine_cooler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/56b4dbc0-67d2-49f1-bf77-10065259520f/faxakududikuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/252fce16-1179-464d-bb59-e71bb77cc5b7/the_man_in_the_high_castle_season_5_ending.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fb9963ed-ba35-4914-9b01-06b632fc912d/texas_instruments_ti-84_plus_c_silver_edition_graphing_calculator.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_off0000f3f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F8 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 24afc6c314ab922a987233fca48bb314d4cacc3995554cb742df187464d0556c
font_01_sfnt_off000106a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x106A6 10844 bytes
SHA-256: 5db69ad66e4692b9c5311796b79798322e9100cdb1303d2703326915aaec57c5