Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12160a34afa6195a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:45:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 06dda732ff82b57dbde98328d317635f SHA-1: a41f6416ded5a1df04f4564d8abe84bb0b756315 SHA-256: 12160a34afa6195a8094ba8e16c7aa4791e64ca34e61f99c3cb6887d6c144e46
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a redirector, likely intended to trick the user into downloading a malicious file or visiting a phishing page. The presence of a 'download button' lure and a 'clipboard command execution lure' further supports a malicious workflow, aiming to exploit user interaction.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=bharathiar+university+m.+com+syllabus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://zexisom.artbynicolamclean.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775320/duximuvutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://semago.helenmelbourne.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383377/4764513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vwpitstop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775983/sawesag-wuforemagaw-zavukig-zasugiwivu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.here2helpnj.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739987/7046033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jgsnj.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695644/2618064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4364/6614/files/st_athanasius_on_the_incarnation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/dorapijixanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5467/8687/files/jixonobub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0269/9681/files/99906366856.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6287/8618/files/66400819684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7374/7609/files/sufaxulozasonukoraki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8584/6945/files/farudipaxuzivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9582/5320/files/absenteeism_rrl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2567/0037/files/wojupigibegezawekumopera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3702/4668/files/2020_chevy_cruze_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1018/5637/files/article_370_original_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5158/8507/files/28989587854.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005c6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C6B 5780 bytes
SHA-256: 8eaff71726b466e99be0e1041c9b9a776d489dcfd3553174c2bbb3c21176aefa
font_01_sfnt_off00006ff6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF6 4220 bytes
SHA-256: 1080155e15c7845ec5b5933130eda7c46c86c3ac956f95ce263f05105f580e51
font_02_sfnt_off00007e89.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E89 9904 bytes
SHA-256: 5dda251fd663d1cd77e8cfe30522f02766e26c9ef67065457ad46a4fd94cf687