Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cfcf94978cf5c56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:22:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e65e2f7df0a560dde845716d7b1f27cb SHA-1: ca48cdd282a48b251d4fa1a420fcbf8947a3f85b SHA-256: 3cfcf94978cf5c56bf82c91ab17c253eccb3207042e749e69837b2dfb8fb96b3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as educational material, aiming to trick users into clicking it. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF was flagged for linking to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics, suggesting a deliberate attempt to lead users to a malicious site.

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.com/pify?keyword=neet+biology+chapter+wise+questions+and+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.waialaekahalachapel.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815437/kisizuponamirelata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://batubazek.spooncaterers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/8872007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hazlehurstcentre.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856743/99785d86f99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.writersatharriman.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775657/kipep_bijetuvuguse_kekivepida_bidepuf.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/1/0433/6877/5841/files/lakipijunujurifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2224/5273/files/aadhaar_card_print.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7406/8390/files/38002687813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6189/5587/files/26212886923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5847/0810/files/xutajefilodonaletiware.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/0843/1004/files/caballo_de_troya_5_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5937/2439/files/kevodeditos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4031/8375/files/rotimuluzuguxepaxigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7269/files/7149065412.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006340.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6340 5848 bytes
SHA-256: cd5ec0efe775a0408b477cb1741f954a10b41cfab8a39cdb89c3d05bdc681ad6
font_01_sfnt_off00007729.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7729 5636 bytes
SHA-256: c7f0b63c0ad063776c1fadc09c4ab793d3f34914ed892a6e3ed4746c0336dd79
font_02_sfnt_off000086c7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86C7 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 575f0d49c2b7ca4026f627c569641b6857d508b52c3521304808c5cca99a4973
font_03_sfnt_off0000aafa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAFA 17516 bytes
SHA-256: c7c72fdd8a41992bf2e2706df429ea5e4306548eedae8ddd9ae29188eb64b7a8