Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e5b89d45cd8de07d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2021-04-08 00:24:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: c581c16fbff38b99da3afd37a4d7369a SHA-1: d331389b094db7191ee972218737f032574ac91b SHA-256: e5b89d45cd8de07dba99fded3bd322d83da8e5d35b8c8575f501ccab3ac985b4
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, and is also flagged by ClamAV as a phishing trojan. It contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting it's part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain search terms related to academic PDFs, further supporting the lure of finding specific content. The presence of embedded URLs indicates an attempt to redirect the user to potentially malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9989

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://zajinet.ru/wix?keyword=calculus+early+transcendentals+8th+edition+pdf+online+reddit PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/marixefe/6iiGjj0/slytherin_robe_costume_girl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nefagowilad.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134742945/e268fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/zudatona/RjgvEPr/13129226734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4451549/normal_6005a16f31393.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazejuvo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134439384/zuliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warororob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/3/135314520/sixaroviwiwugizuvot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4393180/normal_5fd08e30f01fd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4446029/normal_6062f5510af8a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vedoreket/p3RTG7t/theeratha_vilayattu_pillai_song_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/xuxiropuwomo/AbjahcX/50832089783.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/wumigapinido/giBMhjj/lyrics_video_app_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4456143/normal_601bc11e72d4f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jovinafunen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695325/damipup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/vunebapenuj/jjiehCT/piano_tiles_3_game_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jukonejidar.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134876273/cbf50da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/balaragu/Hic5Uhj/84482173092.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/womafafowix/PrGwhhh/door_closer_installation.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
    • https://580b68e3-2104-4118-ae5b-4f285de1c062.filesusr.com/ugd/dad7b5_90efb92b60c14aec913c8c589451c825.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/3e747028-c154-483f-9ea8-ff9349cb1de6/shark_rotator_powered_lift_away_with_duoclean_reviews.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://c7fb3737-a2fb-4e06-b71d-f78b648bb0a4.filesusr.com/ugd/a9248e_cc5bfc578d0d4dcd90bfb4d5c0c9f9db.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6e8b94c7-278c-4a65-9c30-8d61c93a8f31.filesusr.com/ugd/9ff9b8_b56d0e4aae2a467bb1710ecc4c5454ba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7a85318f-4713-4791-b1c3-1f0048239fd0/alesis_dm10_repair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dd3a609d-fcd9-461e-ae06-f7e9ec6f332d.filesusr.com/ugd/811c3f_452053cac4fd4538a88765f755fc17a4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0aedfac2-7f0c-4b5d-8894-4a2175764b82/trail_tech_vapor_rpm_install.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://235a1a37-2bc9-4d3b-8f1d-d3952ad9fba8.filesusr.com/ugd/3111f7_fd02bed7e1ee400cb35b72c3b1471d25.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001126c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1126C 5444 bytes
SHA-256: e997445ea3c9d4c1aea9eaa7ecc9c36b2aefd15c575df605de8454dd37b809e5
font_01_sfnt_off000124ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x124EA 11440 bytes
SHA-256: f8ff90c887fbd9a7440384d8f95ea37b1caad134b2d09c17b3225c628f9dfc92
font_02_sfnt_off00014bfc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BFC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378