Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c4ce5d3b5a0489b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-11-09 16:48:40 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 7d6970f84603806d245948970f46c7f5 SHA-1: 7c3bb8af9163afc3265fd9a62449fbd117e3329d SHA-256: 0c4ce5d3b5a0489b2b39fec394bf65091ec34dd99e16f916146bd4bccf4d293f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL pointing to a redirector, and other links point to PDFs hosted on S3 buckets, likely part of an SEO link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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://traffmen.ru/strik?keyword=slope+intercept+form+calculator+with+2+points In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xelimewat/apollo_s_lyre_location.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zifozujiwi/free_further_mathematics_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nevitasez.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134305442/fimaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/dudigonifu/xabirikizupimebuleko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nilafafakem/finding_zeros_of_quadratic_function_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vukumurumijolot.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134433046/3d5fe3090b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/zerejibixupav/agricultural_tools_and_their_uses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dunopupusegujuz.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134348927/5389138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jewajufigojoxi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438211/a6467c1ec800.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kezobonuduwu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134457579/bidov-rebexinewapuje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lebotuzipum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134519329/291a99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lulitetuxopibol.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164377/6265756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fc941cf5-3c50-4b78-886c-494687e70ce1/kc_soccer_dome_north_kansas_city.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f90662ed-e897-4c5a-bc1d-7bd6d46f6b30/mission_federal_credit_union_national_city.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67A2 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 073229a6cff0a92d5f1715cc50ae3b8572cb58e60c130578c537e8fffc65cea8
font_01_sfnt_off00007a84.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A84 12136 bytes
SHA-256: 95eae358fd7a892bb533a49f3485861d68dc32253429e8426653ab179cb1c222
font_02_sfnt_off0000a2da.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2DA 16080 bytes
SHA-256: aba6d7228e0fcc42341ee09250d9598a413f48202077e5963e65f524ed209447