Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1c799402af4c49c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:05:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 153728fa0389f45de53818683f26f149 SHA-1: 3062dc6a488e0b67a7b224232ca732b24f93bd05 SHA-256: 1c799402af4c49c433c37b83799b026eafc6fa0df1be56e146f2bbe8799302fd
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF contains a lure for 'networking multiple choice questions and answers' and embeds numerous links. One primary link directs to a known malicious redirector, and the document body explicitly requests sensitive information such as recovery phrases and private keys. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content broadly. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=networking+multiple+choice+questions+and+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sallyshaw.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739916/b7df74ff4a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://matowepul.soundofsilver.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/wekuv_xizalemeg_pogugunuxada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flexgridtech.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740723/fuzodemevuvili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.realestatestuff.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/f4986b0d.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/1/0430/3945/7429/files/tixejuxuzifesazulax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0130/6526/files/aboriginal_food_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2525/3023/files/bafekagakejenewoxisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9027/1638/files/fobexunutijetuloxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5477/5970/files/minecraft_1._5._2_mods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1560/files/3368843045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3464/7460/files/3d_converter_navisworks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8418/4728/files/degowirapor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/garukoresiluzujumujapuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3332/0872/files/equilibrio_quimico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7330/5750/files/36888605900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8850/2174/files/11647433133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37872338034.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007435.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7435 5820 bytes
SHA-256: 8462ce2b49e6ebb3090bed07aeaaec7b37c44ff9df3a2fb8e17275b5127dc911
font_01_sfnt_off000087f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87F3 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 7d89e445f16620c5c2f7f0a6bbdfdb1595c0f5c963a2fb300ee8e33211887e42