Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c7d3850e95a6fd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 16:24:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6d2a34afb09be7a2c66ccad1ef34616d SHA-1: 7acf3bcb4fb09c567a5a3d250b9522e5dcbaf52f SHA-256: 0c7d3850e95a6fd52252934798943dc7f58a63c3f90edb8a1794c66b676637ac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, which in turn points to a malicious URL. This indicates a phishing or malware distribution attempt, likely using a lure related to academic content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

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.ru/pify?keyword=green+function+wave+equation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stoneycreekuniquedecor.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380042/9939549.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eliteheatbuffalo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775441/medinagap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donnasdressshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681448/8a813488ee.pdfIn 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/1/0440/7102/6853/files/bill_bennett_about_donald_trump.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2626/7816/files/kimonepafijuxevaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9007/6057/files/15130312268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3237/0584/files/19552307969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2768/4760/files/58806993169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96951977507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9533/0717/files/eastern_shore_craigslist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6409/8970/files/zaverum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/3001/files/non_alcoholic_cocktail_recipes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8095/6569/files/61375575906.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2285/9944/files/lidesugaxulasivorebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4410/8445/files/57903911322.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000c5b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5B5 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 259dc60374146335f8d824e3ee3dc0a396e7c5abf7a9b4f775bc5cf4161029ed
font_01_sfnt_off0000d74b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD74B 17380 bytes
SHA-256: 8a061b8e4d513f03000a7fc0f53e8394466570c963f05ea54d0286a42f0a749d
font_02_sfnt_off00010e82.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E82 16568 bytes
SHA-256: 673d3c2f0ea3cbb1d6a4204814925bc997278801dc679c6b567be6cc9b49a1b9
font_03_sfnt_off0001257c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1257C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c