Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 494428335970cf83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 11:59:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e0a1e87384ff65949279646875ff5b1c SHA-1: 3fe06f31a039676e8b6db4dfafe246c5d52cfd7c SHA-256: 494428335970cf83a0dae0646b5c5dd15e4c01ba3e02e7b0ae2a999aefa90cd3
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Ielts reading pdf answer sheet' and the malicious URL. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the primary 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.
  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=ielts+reading+pdf+answer+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.cbpencil.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637374/2558997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.1220productions.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813111/wamebinogabuvepuluko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wolfegranite.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381919/fef10471ac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pofobezu.marsjoyofpainting.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/lifusiri.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/1/0427/4572/5094/files/wurudotizizeramelov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0644/1110/files/82689080288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3302/4929/files/weather_glen_burnie_md_21060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9385/9231/files/gudepeker.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7016/0032/files/29461774158.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7532/1499/files/builtwithscience_workout_a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40313354442.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7717/9294/files/72334513960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6333/6350/files/nimakixovuxota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3681/0152/files/72952800750.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6512/2720/files/kegixosobinugewiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7733/files/30438329601.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_off000067ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67AB 5008 bytes
SHA-256: b9d02a6115822832620a5470029e23e51703f431aa8d70c941add7e16eefbfd5
font_01_sfnt_off000078ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78AE 9860 bytes
SHA-256: edb16ff34a2d2a29b7ea4b3f98eb6df779bce963e99b7d35f868476cba4c6315
font_02_sfnt_off00009a68.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A68 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361