Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 157680a8bb1fcde4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB Created: 2020-08-16 13:43:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c31c28c395f793ff633d1d9cd600871c SHA-1: 698d087338db542b700608b257c1715f9993869f SHA-256: 157680a8bb1fcde43e69a3a8d808cdb4a1bd6a7c740e7a1b68d7f309b126112a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm designed to appear as legitimate downloads. The primary lure directs users to a redirector URL, which likely leads to a malicious payload or phishing page. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and PDF structure strongly suggest a social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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=oxford+bookworms+library+stage+6+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.kimonocha.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856285/0386830003bd2.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/1/0431/8865/0146/files/lojefan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7680/5018/files/tecnicas_de_alimentacion_enteral_y_parenteral.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3917/8399/files/dovesuxigawizukexumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7727/0692/files/disney_blizzard_beach_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7295/4269/files/wunidipawiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5031/9517/files/papawo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9492/4694/files/bitupurafofuborejanazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3507/4465/files/federal_university_of_abeokuta_post_utme_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6217/1550/files/44985019843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7181/6358/files/28651280537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/96394072572.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000586d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x586D 23192 bytes
SHA-256: 7f938ddd0c5220babbbcf926da4e6b7c27928ab7a61478848bcb262ead740bec
font_01_sfnt_off0000a186.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA186 5556 bytes
SHA-256: 9f74a75bdedcdd2058faf7113e47edfcad90007304a3743a9132c864464a6f29
font_02_sfnt_off0000b493.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB493 13988 bytes
SHA-256: f35c321008fe760a58fdab471d3274123720bd3bfa066e669c086d6c44c2cfd8
font_03_sfnt_off0000dc43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDC43 16160 bytes
SHA-256: 31f54bf1b2a0bd5fcefce680aa7bc0ab7b2c48a0f9a6877104dd616c0c0a5462
font_04_sfnt_off0000f13f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF13F 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71