Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18a9abc033967366…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 00:28:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f2c67d86dda36eeb9d275f0572ce066d SHA-1: ed6d18c8b4a67ab7409d7726d5d26c097689166d SHA-256: 18a9abc033967366617c0185bcff719efd0ac70e3cca5b9648644dbd3812bf69
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a worksheet, likely a lure to encourage clicks. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=binomial+expansion+worksheet+with+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.springshine.us/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384127/sulezogop-judaz-kazavo-virukide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gftrails.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681409/79e1a4c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aikenhistoryfchs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873876/7992591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.thdl.org/http://www.thdl.org/TibetanIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9938/2170/files/18_wheeler_games.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7129/files/nufukexetowewurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/94703965743.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2764/5095/files/wow_classic_alliance_leveling_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9353/9478/files/31651721249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8855/9780/files/50072251915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9232/7077/files/ctfd_urban_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9063/1064/files/54710791914.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8009/5646/files/jinagiwetipof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8307/9592/files/74757461947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2639/0933/files/lagidemuguzowepele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4093/1991/files/tasugojum.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlTibetanIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F61 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 7876478bc1659113fdbebf3a35f037dd7887dec3e659be552acae2fe74d5f969
font_01_sfnt_off000072bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72BD 5556 bytes
SHA-256: a8ccca06eb2a19973cc3425bf046e8ccb8ea375452e14ea4f69b66bca8a124da
font_02_sfnt_off0000858c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x858C 8668 bytes
SHA-256: 584c3d44c808ca6d9c2067965d1c7d2ec9bd3674b3ba40a4947ed5f73df8ff88
font_03_sfnt_off00009673.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9673 13920 bytes
SHA-256: d75ab4553347cefca713c07c225015f7aefac4020ff0f0c3bc40833efaa43aba