Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f1ed92e67b34ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 11:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 85bc39f0b4912c1617b1043a8e452247 SHA-1: 1b3fdd7817afa1293ac00b82331b1cc67d415dbc SHA-256: 3f1ed92e67b34ffc04376faa76c4e84d8277e5366ce844b4faca70f9148fbe02
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to an 'Athens vs Sparta worksheet'. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of malicious redirector links and a link farm, indicating a probable phishing or malware distribution attempt. 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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=athens+vs+sparta+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rotuvotar.theosophicalsocietydurhamcentre.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438079/0254666ce6a04.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lisamccafferty.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383664/bamibitamurata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.batrssocal.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/zijagisopigoken-xatatasu-botumasaluw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8742/0835/files/muzibazozofijavedexiser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8907/5099/files/vabowuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3923/3960/files/potatapimaxotamivatugezap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9229/6359/files/18704361051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6585/1542/files/7446341499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0665/5642/files/munedunasuzakewikup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9500/7137/files/jomowemenexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2236/9446/files/59294872023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3074/8072/files/21443205851.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31082235151.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4891/0498/files/vesewevebujekekerufibelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2281/8200/files/34557711675.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rixaraxamixenapo.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_off000069fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69FB 5040 bytes
SHA-256: a8015b3371215c4f80abb2a4db88848d1ed8606907a26eb2110f9f0267fa9582
font_01_sfnt_off00007b1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B1C 9972 bytes
SHA-256: 93bdad450841058f8b261102a3dc35939e2e140f2be6e52d09f17084d528570f
font_02_sfnt_off00009d4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D4D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3