Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1c173dc05120f01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.1 KB Created: 2021-02-28 09:33:07 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 85c361ed1bf6394f3c4ae05e4401d3d4 SHA-1: d21d132145d04b04191645d62905c88d23917af7 SHA-256: e1c173dc05120f01bf5749e3e8cbe47e4b6668d961d576e2cdcad4d5d8ac351c
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links pointing to external PDF files, many hosted on disposable domains. This behavior is indicative of a link farm, likely used for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest malicious intent, with the embedded links potentially leading to phishing or malware delivery.

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
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://crophysi.ru/wix?keyword=june+19+2018+geometry+regents+answers In PDF document text
    • https://pezuzani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134631528/lijexeludopuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4407789/normal_5fe802e966831.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4445735/normal_5ff664e77a84e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4476282/normal_5ff4cb8881f13.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/perokokamosa/0ji6ia8/swat_team_meaning_in_software.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/sabiwizi/dphcVJH/real_formula_car_racing_free_3d_game_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tiwudusakuwizir.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637104/3855124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://badosesidexezub.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874160/ecd9e778fe9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/torujazelome/icGRhcn/z_nation_addy_boyfriend.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xufojidaju/kig7ib3/54328632859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vujalonekodi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712286/5839737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383149/normal_600878df4f3ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4462350/normal_5fda73676347d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4446781/normal_5ffec1dad2085.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379369/normal_5fd687759316b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://titugol.atwebpages.com/letomegubuturezabawez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mivajale.rf.gd/creatine_taking_guide.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f081.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF081 5668 bytes
SHA-256: 5690691cb44c97b5821750ea9bad3d9bf3a69ffb7c7d7ab28efe9bac7255dd9b
font_01_sfnt_off000103b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x103B3 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 71d282cecfd1983522495c09945f85a04018426d76d85c92e96520a75f3b3651
font_02_sfnt_off000127ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x127BA 16072 bytes
SHA-256: 062f8a7185608a18dbd56baf48eb14c791e3c6ea8866a2ddd6a03467109098f1
font_03_sfnt_off00013c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13C59 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c