Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e7aca582b778a0d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

76.1 KB Created: 2021-03-25 02:20:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: ea706554f7db231514d39f5cd0d8effa SHA-1: cc5c529d82c1c0467c342c61aed22346b78708db SHA-256: e7aca582b778a0d8ba83ebf7e18eb063425cfb1688697c9e2bafef524c46a190
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to external PDFs hosted on various domains, including disposable ones. This behavior, combined with heuristics like PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM and PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM, strongly suggests a link farm or phishing lure designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier further support its malicious nature, likely as a phishing or malware distribution tool.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9995

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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://seumenha.ru/award?keyword=affairs+cloud+monthly+current+affairs+pdf+2020 PDF link annotation
    • http://xulodol.mygamesonline.org/muwekemonaxexofubumawik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/lagitesavap/hg24Cjh/tamop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gunonutib/WgexjdZ/cartoon_network_apple_and_onion_competition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/mipijotom/IjcadWW/freeway_closures_southern_california_today.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zeruposizagaki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134854722/bajejoxigikizazofej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sabidodavo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408103/kezaseruruzika_dedupiro_joxit_posifofobel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/bisuligiga/IieEHja/crossfire_2_scope_4-_12x44.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/kewixoretuze/hsji9je/sci_fi_movies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nopotaz.medianewsonline.com/what_does_abigail_mean_in_chinese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/gavonenegave/c2hdEY3/iphone_weather_app_default_city.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sivasanetit.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/6/0/136095735/fesivetaxek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kisujaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775962/1a8f54227297.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6200e599-3f2f-4e3e-ab45-e6977ed7e777.filesusr.com/ugd/f8de3e_682b99bd21eb428eb403cef3c0751d2c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e236fdfd-27bb-45c7-a5e0-6c487c3837a6/32803907376.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://68420551-d949-41c4-975b-2ae86aa6d062.filesusr.com/ugd/09c3c7_f9af433db5204cdf9ab3c3d54a57b77c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c91fc208-fb6d-475f-a09e-6b7dc99f05e7/13002316506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/dbe044c3-4b3c-4a89-8b77-22844b82cd36/zegafitamozapurubateliv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2eda13a9-9e0f-47dd-bbfa-a9a5028a3314.filesusr.com/ugd/61c57f_11dac66cdc194fcea475bc53cc2524a8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1a6c606f-1efd-495f-9370-57f425d809fd.filesusr.com/ugd/1be480_a841e5898edb4790ba340627137c3092.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/69097ed1-4fc7-40f9-867f-14c35ac9d61c/95736058429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://de26864d-dd79-4a6d-8467-b5cf435a6969.filesusr.com/ugd/6ff07c_88ffdbe697ef4761996a42a7c75e7a8a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/893622ac-2a9f-44a9-ab29-98a2df1f0095/dell_optiplex_9020_motherboard_schematic.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_off0000e90d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE90D 5760 bytes
SHA-256: c8a131ffc8f915011dd04a12fc8ffdf7de71396639fa95639b69a56d628432be
font_01_sfnt_off0000fc91.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFC91 11016 bytes
SHA-256: dc34f4b5ed330782f6d5f0b5d795cdff419d20466b586455f9abd0b617bc1416