Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4cacecb1afb18dcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-09-17 10:46:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9a1cdbc7d47940bcc0f0d4ce0b990ee3 SHA-1: dbf0310a6c3404a8ff73a6b4701b79db7f2d7833 SHA-256: 4cacecb1afb18dcd57a3b2dcd56042a65205dddba72ec74a6d3e3cd5a2845f46
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text and embedded URLs suggest a lure to download further content, likely malicious. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves a link farm designed to redirect users to potentially harmful sites.

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.link/wix?keyword=the+heart+of+mathematics+an+invitation+to+effective+thinking+4th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.eringreenauthor.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380870/6745992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tiwaku.briankrausphotographyltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776542/5a78d7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tasenuso.mapokoresearch.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/zuzaralupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nailsbytdangshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696109/ruvejudipoxopegirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jikiwajim.supherblendz.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683051/3777862.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westburnsvalleysolar.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380688/3281327.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fopazuwer.thegardenpeople.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682156/vogolixetabewunebuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tracydanielstherapies.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740298/a6c38e20cd6c1a.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/1/0436/0034/7299/files/wutazuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2806/8005/files/dasovanixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4978/8327/files/32520618473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8984/5671/files/azure_cli_ubuntu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9698/0136/files/479651810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6756/3420/files/zinaweboj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/7108/7268/files/zolpidem_10mg.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000639c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x639C 5696 bytes
SHA-256: 6bb6bb91655d29ffd4c3f362e24f895f53f39f460db5378322c67945429ef6d4
font_01_sfnt_off000076e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76E1 10040 bytes
SHA-256: 35c81fb8b31bea37bdbecc112cd0065c1c84f9233e7d118bc2c6debaacde0410

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