Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cb62d4782dbc876…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 20:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ce3ee470cfffd53262b82ad8379dea59 SHA-1: 72cce7adeb8b38001713da72b2068ec5cb2f6f00 SHA-256: 3cb62d4782dbc876e3890fea9ed0683620130f6b809a4d1fa8881da7acf9404c
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to redirectors and SEO link farms designed to distribute other malicious PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for free educational material, aligning with phishing or malware distribution tactics. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=human+anatomy+and+physiology+2nd+edition+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.willowfree.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740344/xiwodufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.scottmassagetherapy.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874333/nuwigilur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coxfalconbaseball.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606546/7083718.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maknjacks.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164556/6877733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tonysaladinobaseballtournament.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740804/3405880.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/1/0436/1040/7069/files/45403596797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5982/2243/files/42684414320.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8148/1884/files/20187295723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/nuselejebifulozameka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5481/6665/files/41487569585.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1034/2559/files/jipukirutezaselaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8199/0304/files/35876435945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2011/6387/files/kofib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9358/9142/files/gusomazimewog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3529/5905/files/jizavubosulesufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5238/1846/files/sebavozobitosulodut.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_off0000699b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x699B 5652 bytes
SHA-256: 0ef62132e45ab856a57787a0baa2eca9ad910681c83d0e083fe02195c74fc303
font_01_sfnt_off00007cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CB2 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 0aa3a1dab98202605817f583fedf52b892de01597720326da31bf21bc32d4f74