Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 111c3dc9e0a203db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:14:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ce21a33e6b88248e2fbd96b7bef02f1c SHA-1: 3bcf06882809fbd48e089109af859db2f2e692da SHA-256: 111c3dc9e0a203db943d620107ee6e2f2e59e6240575079e0d61da098344ffbe
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, indicating a link farm or phishing attempt. The primary redirector URL is associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure URL found in the heuristics, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading potentially malicious content.

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=icse+class+11+biology+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dosad.stcolumbahawaii.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740541/6f49893f7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.damnearcabins.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/fozale_jatuzepasavabi_jilunegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ahartymeal.ca/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969389/guzajuta-tipikajogisuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7857/3464/files/64820947174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8058/1274/files/9906893591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1604/5222/files/46208150646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2806/0059/files/virgilio_bucoliche.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4472/4133/files/nejir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0120/0288/files/fitenevujebubej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0572/8152/files/enron_corporation_case_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8100/6244/files/mizoruw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/mac_address_on_macbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9773/5843/files/manilobod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9313/1425/files/78510508902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/womakutudoduxavetegafajan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/6819160869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2494/0184/files/basic_digital_electronics_tutorial.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004cbb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CBB 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 615375374942294678dd46f1a061ab0aca6aa7fad8c5b2d03713a079229d6a11
font_01_sfnt_off00005fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAC 9880 bytes
SHA-256: 06a7251777ade11abbb1fe38c0bbfbb5e5f25afd5643e82d85bb172ee42e14c3

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