Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1726c7b6cb9f714d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 07:09:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5b3dbe403cd26f8d9acf5463447f6a51 SHA-1: 12b8e48cfa4abc608438f73ac7d79ab40a2ec111 SHA-256: 1726c7b6cb9f714d4a6946e915395a6ba587924b76fc5502470f57b401a907fa
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a primary link identified as a malicious redirector. This redirector is designed to lure users with a seemingly legitimate document title, 'strength of materials class notes pdf', and then directs them to potentially harmful content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.ru/wix?keyword=strength+of+materials+class+notes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_60aaf34d57d44d2e8efb5eab3e0cbb27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_38511c11674340fa94f471187ca1020b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_ac88e10dfced461cb70c5daa34e877d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea78e0_95cc6fe14b9244958bd62445db2d6b78.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dd30d_4a5b8ed7e37f41d4adf475549b965c89.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9698d9746ec44ffb9c18193521fbafa5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3641/6936/files/54182016151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4665/files/wadovanit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2250/8454/files/medscape_radiologist_compensation_report_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72710717911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8488/1825/files/47646530851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8626/6016/files/pre_algebra_word_problems_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/jobiwirimozemovu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8272/5029/files/mac_finder_show_hidden_files.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/tofibeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5005/0460/files/lincoln_town_car_repair_manual.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_off00007636.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7636 5672 bytes
SHA-256: 1a537c4fe0dec977dd5fda703069f4c78523ecd528180757c26f28de91c20151
font_01_sfnt_off0000893b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x893B 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 89454d8ece1be00d2333aac76955f46ed17c4d141322e635bf27f42efb43e54e
font_02_sfnt_off00009307.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9307 15284 bytes
SHA-256: 56512d876b0354767f6234f326ef2633a2b428af9101dc9ff6ad6b7f35fcf48f