Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 182b89556df9102c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:07:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4fed880051c7a798cf6acbbed5a84c5c SHA-1: 8341e6b8865d53cfd508359d6f178c33b7747763 SHA-256: 182b89556df9102c92a6c167caeb9bda7b4d8a7d1f9210d63f437ce8d6da0274
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links designed to create an SEO link farm, directing users to a redirector URL that appears to be malicious. The primary lure is a fake download for an 'artificial intelligence course', which is a common phishing tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs and link farm structure strongly indicate a phishing or malicious redirection attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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=artificial+intelligence+course+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.ledgewoodhills.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856065/mixidato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.preserveatspringknoll.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379040/5439033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.proficiencyfirst.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406449/guvevumanonisel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jessirobertsonmft.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381363/c189c4ab9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silkroadresearchcenter.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438708/1bf520.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/1/0432/5857/7046/files/21208423690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0248/6180/files/63438354276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9585/0150/files/caso_clinico_anemia_sideroblastica.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6769/3474/files/who_s_afraid_of_virginia_woolf_script.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6335/3250/files/sipusexezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6856/4380/files/latuxamakivurikesu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1572/3414/files/xogabulagatarewufajedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6165/8279/files/koputogil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6346/6391/files/dd_bronkopneumonia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6370/4729/files/importancia_de_tomar_agua.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3604/7522/files/a_new_textbook_of_americanism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7966/1736/files/ivy_tech_accuplacer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6085/3912/files/mesekolirakuporukira.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_off0000b66f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB66F 5404 bytes
SHA-256: e5a28bac45fd99780f35ef0174c559f763c210f0f6c107087599a7e928761f5b
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8E4 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off0000d171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD171 10360 bytes
SHA-256: 96febc56b8a40f9b2be11ffcc43247044a73cc32c4e5e02043e07a2e130810ed