Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36cc9d44cddfc828…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 09:23:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dc073130a049edff143606704af23b39 SHA-1: 847373504eec566c1ce326d0524e1f06218807be SHA-256: 36cc9d44cddfc828d8c1a4951b1f254ca5d033cd3355ec707a413f645d725293
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download button, which is a common lure for phishing or malware delivery. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL. The PDF was generated using wkhtmltopdf, and it hosts a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=applications+of+derivatives+class+12+ncert+solutions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lapen.us/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874143/keguduwa_miboxesoxodomag_vikinetixefosi_durapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dewaf.clebelleza.shop/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/35f1f0fabb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mogatod.ediblelandscapes.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606060/durudibuvonozopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://defod.eteambuilding.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856158/aff871a2bdc0053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hermanus-festivals.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970004/842bb774068.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/1/0435/6472/8479/files/malayala_manorama_year_book_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0945/6803/files/toxatetemuwanaworuxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5556/2398/files/lawepiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7960/6177/files/53524088822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5719/8742/files/lightweight_reader_windows_xp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/gixatavogaxifov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2471/9773/files/contoh_soal_medan_magnet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8275/9836/files/zojegexipujele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9920/2467/files/wimepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6773/6225/files/tuzuwisetudej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/bandsaw_fence_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8359/4909/files/neca_labor_units.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000120d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D9 5380 bytes
SHA-256: a7e2f7b48918e0e4db63e72fe032fb06ea71f20ea545f72331864e3a229a3015
font_01_sfnt_off00013341.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13341 16440 bytes
SHA-256: 74674bdc6d4993ae9f16b363c30fd24f7e756e19710d691dd297fe2cb09c634d
font_02_sfnt_off000166be.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x166BE 16584 bytes
SHA-256: a470468b343cf0de274471c5386ead9c3df438e92e5574cbe9179f53d87b8933