Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0974016bcdef932d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:46:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fc6f2ea3beff0dfe0622f57a0885e86e SHA-1: 2b135e82502e37c075163e7a1ce6c132a0fb48bd SHA-256: 0974016bcdef932de6489c9fc798df92401c53dc7fc88ff8c4317dfcc6474d94
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The embedded URL and document body text point to a lure for 'ireport tutorial for beginners pdf', which redirects to a suspicious domain. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and malicious links strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.
  • 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://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ireport+tutorial+for+beginners+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.englishlanguageeditors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739746/bufene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.suzilittle.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740586/latevurinabamuril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn 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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/28690179497.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0490/2045/files/20666045766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8832/1437/files/vocalise_piano_solo_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5872/5018/files/tisufivumufuvano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5967/5293/files/35869465145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/noguvusagoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4638/7362/files/fakurolumawobitetufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99913566500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1122/7300/files/69753072135.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3600/0931/files/online_chat_apps_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3502/5830/files/questes_atos_administrativos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7016/0032/files/91457181084.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off00008354.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8354 12556 bytes
SHA-256: b31749a1349f74a215bb4248ba866c08117c2603c651374d6becb8484813ba17
font_00_sfnt_off000071d4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D4 5168 bytes
SHA-256: 70626cf6a2981504dd602f84464c534b91a4951e7eb5452824ae6ce9a4fa1064
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6ce.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6CE 14876 bytes
SHA-256: a27dbb27d84101be129339e96e7e78dae1bf23627d28b60ba32841f06f3348df
font_03_sfnt_off0000d615.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD615 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230