Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1717f9174d6c0941…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.8 KB Created: 2020-07-29 13:38:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7a30355e6727f8b35b0ce3d8e404b6fb SHA-1: 382a9425cbf3e52e5dce504db0632093449f6168 SHA-256: 1717f9174d6c094169bda712009bad4e2e0a2c56ce1e07f29d9e54c028b7015f
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to an 'immunization schedule table'. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=immunization+schedule+table+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.merarifernandez.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407165/6839308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.houseofbellator.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814227/deduzaxilusixom-vuxulatepojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rideaulakesdirectory.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712193/2638812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.denisenicoledesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454733/7208221.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/1/0429/6769/5509/files/sunagifotevegitafijopowud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0926/1217/files/17647676189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1275/7400/files/38208029096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0361/7173/files/73635486359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5598/8387/files/15285726277.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5778/3718/files/kolorosumikub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6663/0037/files/sukikumizusugetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2610/1910/files/50229507576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0639/3496/files/zagobufeveganuxeralaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0710/7495/files/jifelusilineme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4479/8613/files/5939330892.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4937/7177/files/kujunosogafaxodobirusizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0081/4998/files/89113938687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51108684678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/96673180063.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bd4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD4A 5584 bytes
SHA-256: 233b1703343cceba315eee177ca950ac8e21880bb3848c27204b36ab6ca6bbbd
font_01_sfnt_off0000d014.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD014 14988 bytes
SHA-256: c9dbf1048b65b18d0424a48f956882bda9992acabb9d33c043409f51b078df3a