Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a56328050bf8245…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:25:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f76864849fd59dcffec4fd4aeafb0bce SHA-1: f15ea548dd6f089c060a88a1d74cbc128a29e11f SHA-256: 1a56328050bf82450c803cc8b03a3ac469bea074f246b7a095da424f6717b684
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which are to external sites, and one specific link is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'electronics and communication engineering books pdf free' and the malicious redirector URL. This suggests a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking the link, which then leads to malicious infrastructure.

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=electronics+and+communication+engineering+books+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.liberalcoalition.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384113/dogirolamomegedavegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.technicalwritingonline.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739060/vokezanekapuzevut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.culinaryvacationsinc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437924/donuxowodunejuvito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebeccaevans4gower.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636728/9387543.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/1/0447/2619/0234/files/cello_scales_and_arpeggios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9240/1566/files/base64_to_javascript.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5203/9328/files/46070422853.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0603/3052/files/ielts_speaking_part_3_sample_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5352/2850/files/30198712957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4586/3067/files/dexekizolos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5354/7677/files/guresosupifobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0636/9703/files/expressive_and_receptive_language_disorder.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9717/6741/files/employees_provident_fund_act_1952_bare_act.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8613/5961/files/comunismo_e_socialismo_em.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3570/files/43181324335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4537/1549/files/simokijawowulezab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2269/7126/files/jafelusopujudixokebaloxiv.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_off00005fb0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB0 5636 bytes
SHA-256: 9432cbd7920fda0780bd0e7690e7d7701c86b95a3f0fd30e0010804858c9d46a
font_01_sfnt_off000072bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72BF 2116 bytes
SHA-256: 89454d8ece1be00d2333aac76955f46ed17c4d141322e635bf27f42efb43e54e
font_02_sfnt_off00007c8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C8B 14336 bytes
SHA-256: fe83f4fef679dc55740a60c5dbc548d4ee2f49ea75f2a95646be237faa678247