Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f8e932e053153bce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.2 KB Created: 2021-03-20 22:58:57 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: bbc2a8010def51d0add4f61b62fed68e SHA-1: 7c4958cf792d8d8bcd8a77bd3c860819424833d2 SHA-256: f8e932e053153bcee46c8de56b6533a0104370eeb5d605e9ea08744dc0a17cde
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous external links, many of which are part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious sites. The presence of a 'free-download phishing' lure and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest it's designed to lead users to phishing or malware download pages.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=alphago+zero+nature+paper+pdf PDF link annotation
    • http://helplnstagramcontact6088758.com/kevarogulotdpkck.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gudukupir/ielts_reading_answer_sheet_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388293/normal_603c1764b49b6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://free-at.pro/tv_guide_austin_texas6wwpq.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dazemi/28931743654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xidulumexi/nodusaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://balifruit.com/20929254809tyyaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://swast-group.website/independent_commission_against_corruption_act_19882ed8i.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4467030/normal_604169601616c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://itgermany.net/fawadm2o3n.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zurejekivob.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813755/vonagix-jopomuwapekubor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bisapovepizaj/windows_powershell_3.0_step_by_step_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4491671/normal_60047c0d96a0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zunaduxa/android_activity_lifecycle_explained.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://rasozonikazip.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134904665/8772307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mattelipsticks.site/2550724247807280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://waperimawomexav.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134733778/2489950.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://4cd5eafb-d261-4666-a528-29b55b1676c1.filesusr.com/ugd/8dde66_33a3fbd7b33f44979903942fd45225d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://564fd4a8-0e6d-4f97-813a-a14a70c45316.filesusr.com/ugd/f90d28_c492cc0807d04c92b08b68771dd6ccb3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b760d8db-9746-4821-aa2b-94c9f806d328.filesusr.com/ugd/26ce45_bade6fff13d4410cb90283841c5385ff.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_off0000fa87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA87 8508 bytes
SHA-256: 366bde5794d0b18ddc851b4ad02c706ddf3a53ef6b384a097712dde898402847
font_01_sfnt_off000116fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x116FC 5164 bytes
SHA-256: fb2f74af1d1000fd7eee6ceccd12a6018c86bff6425cc9c63b9acaf9370e0c8a
font_02_sfnt_off00012890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12890 11484 bytes
SHA-256: ccd3ef47095d7395db4a2334a408b8811b368221e7ea8462369989ad8d6542bc