Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17f9f3430a6c18bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-11-07 18:53:09 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: b0330079261a945e5cf44bf5407ce434 SHA-1: b9f8dff32c61d2b9217ebe777501a178bda45876 SHA-256: 17f9f3430a6c18bdb4381d9b6d0163ce9266052ae3046c2de6f106b98a386f9e
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains embedded URLs that lead to potentially malicious files, disguised as a worksheet answer key. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of external URIs suggests an attempt to download further content. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs indicate a likely social engineering attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://traffset.ru/123?keyword=fission+and+fusion+worksheet+answer+key PDF link annotation
    • https://jivexine.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380908/cf83950309.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kuvinonufero.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134307364/0feaea8ae6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kubupukadumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382740/fetewafokapujojajum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xujaxivef.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438557/f4698b929c3963.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://pubosepiko.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/50355376148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fazojikimugu656942302.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/sea_of_thieves_theme_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://juvibix.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/gabizagamumarokidatanum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/d30734e3-98d9-428c-b20c-5ecafff83862/fesirajowolaketexudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/c2a0ec0b-d236-449c-964e-e257cb463e7c/vajefosurisolo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/25764107-78c7-4910-a51e-09f3922444e5/kizulabez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jazurefemufu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/sistema_de_proyeccion_americano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4820f77a-aa87-4e32-9e97-e67d6c3c8546/nadegosatiror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e88bb029-0946-44a2-9cdf-37021ddd655e/patuvubipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8e238bd8-3b95-4f57-8c19-2fa0e94d5914/41748526854.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_off000052aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x52AA 5060 bytes
SHA-256: 6af69dae43ace68bb36c21cf19a57d77c1c7761fe26717254353a9a8c0f769b2
font_01_sfnt_off000063e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E8 9536 bytes
SHA-256: 157299bae2b1ed0bcb74a8a75698d833e4bdc0e3b78b713216d90bccb6462903
font_02_sfnt_off0000846c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x846C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378