Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdc2500128cd8a78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.5 KB Created: 2021-02-15 17:09:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-05
MD5: 25bb5f7b95c0e6c3e46438103ac67629 SHA-1: 4b0bbc1362a099c7b1eacfae6eddd788f2d66c9a SHA-256: fdc2500128cd8a78a7dc9b9c42489f170fcb1d2664e7366a1c1251b79971a410
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of a URL related to printer ink cartridge reset, combined with the ML classifier and ClamAV detection, strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is weaponized to host and distribute malicious links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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://baarspo.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+i+reset+my+canon+mg3600+ink+cartridge PDF link annotation
    • https://ranemexamegen.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134440137/zolekigedakavem-kutogodugeju-ributaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/beledufe/4FghtCO/65285902639.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bopugokux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/9/134901566/8811cc9760d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gajokemijibefe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134467094/mitapalugibitedote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4391047/normal_60285d2d3b6ee.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sewobefavewekog.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134367647/3577269.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.sqhk.co/tesadubozino/jgduoLS/connect_game_flow_free_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vepibasizux.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380915/d2a9642.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://domensita.fun/dinubuveaxiiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xadidevoki.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873902/dimosudowigume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449184/normal_5fe85ab7004e7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xidelesa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134498911/govojig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4527345/normal_5fc7c660f008d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://discout.online/robekilikulezimofanujarji1q.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vusuranozaxo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134012668/d4d18bfb4cb37a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://warapado.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437563/4313873.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4494417/normal_5fed80531e7b0.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_off0001032c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1032C 5904 bytes
SHA-256: 41f103eb78d2ebd1623947e3dd26fe9fb4a2a4993b39db047eb30158f177e214
font_01_sfnt_off00011745.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11745 10868 bytes
SHA-256: 736e97c525aeee7c65f3ec1957503a62f86b6e333186421ab74c2f966421798e