Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b12aa186c89379d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.3 KB Created: 2020-09-12 06:21:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1bdf1b0a2d0b25cdbbe9dae43ac0b164 SHA-1: d6f8e854e8bfd982b42fc2e0c0c6dbada7b123e6 SHA-256: 0b12aa186c89379d16585d635fb019e8511df9ec6e7ef42ffdb5930bd73bd736
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a download for academic material, which redirects to a known malicious domain. This is a common tactic for phishing or malware distribution, often delivered via spearphishing attachments. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's designed to host a link farm for SEO manipulation to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.ru/wix?keyword=fundamentals+of+engineering+economics+solutions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0430/2451/5229/files/lenodezatezetobedijonid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5464/2853/files/baidu_er_script_chrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7259/4844/files/kedamesozud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/8353/1175/files/45875465817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5388/files/dalisogavida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1506/1153/files/83988876738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4194/2678/files/bob_dylan_knocking_on_heavens_door_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3620/5479/files/resize_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2468/7014/files/how_to_restore_your_chevrolet_pickup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2682/4863/files/medipejudagip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1146/5638/files/tuwapematenosago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0478/8637/files/ableton_live_10_with_crack_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc03df_27d953071be24315a3da48517690bc81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3283b0_592895b9bba1433684d78dd18e5da4c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bf302_b21f7585825f4f1d95d218099421a7be.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab922d_f0928aaac7e94e52b55330d7a8c35992.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b94e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB94E 1568 bytes
SHA-256: 0172e917773b239235d24d9c0462b0dc2e040d9419e5f948fb092b7f031ee502
font_01_sfnt_off0000c122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC122 5312 bytes
SHA-256: d63e14c18e3c89c0dbef77dc5afc0eec565baeb26a9be77518394b8dc0037907
font_02_sfnt_off0000d30f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD30F 2408 bytes
SHA-256: 3a53e2c392bb6015230526eb16c27ebe2a8506a528fda672519f9fc84bdf5467
font_03_sfnt_off0000dd18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD18 16560 bytes
SHA-256: fbab77f910ef9e9fce46e0b7c2dbf65dcd97334d004ade762d09c59f231ba081
font_04_sfnt_off00011132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11132 16116 bytes
SHA-256: 4fd39a652744dde8a99594ec88556329c99d05afd3935a70b7429b2f99486ced
font_05_sfnt_off00012611.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12611 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f

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