Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e19896d0985628ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.9 KB Created: 2021-01-22 20:45:47 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: cc1e5251adb98e5b58b4053bf8e7b1ba SHA-1: ecf9dfa95fbec736054a3589f39453d3b29384d6 SHA-256: e19896d0985628bae03d5def39dc86d8fecd7f6f3350d63a9dbe1ffc254b9f78
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, indicating a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, likely related to phishing or distributing further malware. The embedded URLs and the nature of the link farm point towards an attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • 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://bologen.ru/123?utm_term=computer+fundamentals+and+applications+valencia PDF link annotation
    • https://porukugo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380087/videdadajefisobena.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4448323/normal_5fd9adb4efb06.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tuvameboroke/iibied1/93355901473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bifamomove/information_system_objective_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4488102/normal_5fe6b50b3d066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lafugafeniki/gGhdgYd/london_vacation_travel_guide_youtube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gepavemu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134861499/nutivonevu_sokifab_laripetes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xarepunekifa/oihzuhc/jidajebomebokevelumabab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tajelezoja/iMjhgeC/ball_holen_hausfriedensbruch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368492/normal_5fd28239bd6ec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bezegoluzose/miya_bhai_song_pagalworld_video.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1177364.mozfiles.com/files/1177364/69876644591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/detaludolef/hcmZgdk/idle_hotel_tycoon_money_cheat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://foxuveguba.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/2/135297813/9320255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1180648.mozfiles.com/files/1180648/aqualife_3d_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/milevatomog/fjiYjdG/nejiwekabatusexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lupunudarowujak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134599946/1448857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mamevugixej/e0eKloR/affirmative_action_programs_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tekebuzegox.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814382/talolelizuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1176547.mozfiles.com/files/1176547/87323594097.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bitizulokiva/8hcger3/taravibi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1171526.mozfiles.com/files/1171526/cafe_games_online_facebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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_off0000e854.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE854 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 1abc096c90b29f81e953b16a2f72284a808b7217508dc8607e9a43426269391d
font_01_sfnt_off0000fa28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA28 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 1e0645711271a3f810f4bdc953cd2d63c745f2c6bf6b70915afa0f21c1ce7ac2