Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fec0fadd60eb17da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.7 KB Created: 2021-03-10 08:53:24 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 81f9b8ea758687d01a343f19093384d7 SHA-1: e0cc4f385e5a56ca6ac250200620212d0be47591 SHA-256: fec0fadd60eb17daa13d7685a6ed0c1df1768dadb7d8e4cf99eee9ac49f11be7
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many of which are part of an SEO link farm designed to redirect users to potentially malicious content. The primary URL, 'https://vilenefex.ru/award?keyword=aitt+apprentice+exam+paper+pdf+download', is identified as a redirector, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or trojan delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=aitt+apprentice+exam+paper+pdf+download PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4422145/normal_6042fb6a3d5fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365599/normal_602ca9a8d19ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4368758/normal_5ffb055a46ca9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4452863/normal_5fccb57410db9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4454432/normal_5fc7e818d7f20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kupiokno.su/harry_potter_storyteller_ornaments_2020hdqjr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4380887/normal_6011e26442acf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424630/normal_5fcf0b8f4d5ca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4485015/normal_5fec16c591de9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4413850/normal_6000e4f3c3b45.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4477637/normal_5ff663e0b6547.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shoop-fm.ru/reckless_rider_3d_hoverboard_smart_self-_balancing_wheel5up7l.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://vukefuxi.epizy.com/how_late_can_i_apply_for_maternity_allowance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4a6d8579-c6e9-48c3-aa4e-1bf9d85b55f6/xevafavapuduroti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raxusitusumulag.rf.gd/apk_chess_rush_mod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e6565e07-af00-4f9d-ad46-de323b7d9bf4/do_grills_go_on_sale_for_black_friday.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3d73ec66-e24e-4607-99a5-aa3c333c10ea.filesusr.com/ugd/a96454_1c877a26a76c494a80f15823bce19c03.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1c97581b-dcd0-44a7-8d06-e0cea7b94377/29895242636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ef2e072a-e8a2-4438-804d-cc750be2e2f6.filesusr.com/ugd/6a22cb_c23b241decae4b36a025100ad5058131.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dfc7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDFC7 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 45556de1f1f84a56e0ef1bc97dbec610ffe7b74dd1d0c5804a0190726474266c
font_01_sfnt_off0000f1b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF1B9 10380 bytes
SHA-256: fdc5cd7ac1a8fe45b0e702edb22b5db836fac4626f5bfa9d956d789b049c2310