Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d4c5faf3b5a62ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-10 23:49:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9f8447cf2b1035b59a4d67770d15944f SHA-1: 6132fe5f73f3853b0cd63b796a9c6ecab3be917c SHA-256: 4d4c5faf3b5a62ad53547acf05d0e825a24d1637e91c94b84698d1c1aeb5c9e6
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains multiple embedded links, forming a link farm, with a primary redirector pointing to a "first bank aptitude test" lure. This suggests a phishing or social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into downloading further malicious content. The document's structure and the use of a redirector indicate a sophisticated delivery mechanism, though the specific family remains undetermined.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=first+bank+aptitude+test+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.deadliftbrews.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437444/989457c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.capitalcitycupsc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776503/siladavuwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vojapuv.bridgewatercallingtonraiders.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384401/1180310.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/1/0437/1054/6070/files/8635100495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3001/files/lakotolabukixivawipeboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1267/5995/files/fapugonugukoduwenob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/97217670501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3015/0309/files/7210569688.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5162/2305/files/nipupiwasezusijopixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1991/0813/files/sozorabekawet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1810/0637/files/direct_path_internet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/59577082877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8587/9713/files/78773988631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1778/0896/files/20663694294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8879/6053/files/24162800858.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3095/3630/files/48257728586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3808/0166/files/17302200038.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
🗂 Part of campaign: capitalcitycupsc.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006917.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6917 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 24804d150428639feb0b2034ef03c6567846ee92f1ed8b3fe9189320e3015143
font_01_sfnt_off00007b2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B2B 11076 bytes
SHA-256: d5c215a71fc2e6b623984972c1ff538fe58603d9055b7476c8b83044d5ee11b9