Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 54c2f60394547c7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-11-08 16:47:39 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 83d784d1f8c44ae37d9722fd8c0f5846 SHA-1: 7be1c4b0d89dc45b766fad666f794add0ca195c5 SHA-256: 54c2f60394547c7a80b7f84535a4f43c4d38b41da24f03fd97b2ab498158faee
66 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains embedded URLs and is flagged by ML classifiers as malicious. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for users seeking a product manual. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm heuristic suggests a campaign focused on redirecting users to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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://traffnew.ru/123?keyword=bissell+revolution+proheat+x2+manual PDF link annotation
    • https://ranenowubugipo.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134040983/jupew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dalulasu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134493325/7880139fb21a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xoretesani.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/3/134315313/tetupif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388280/normal_5f9576f3b7827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jasasenud.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134131975/basagajapumam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379240/normal_5f8f6311a77e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4365646/normal_5f873e3726f25.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://pulowesap.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/wejalijegegefazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://likuzow.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/40264502684.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e354d838-9dbe-4c4e-832f-7252859f728a/60265798992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nuvuraxu.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/caracteristicas_de_un_cuento_policia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/sixenogafopoj/dozora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c8b5eb6-f86f-42f8-a043-ee2b442be21c/justine_bateman_family_pictures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lumidap.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/critical_analysis_of_a_poem.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006fed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FED 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 020f98a3d841fe8fa3ae35d4daf9f805a73673af3ec9c96c501a76486300c5d3
font_01_sfnt_off0000820f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x820F 10560 bytes
SHA-256: b9f43219b1c97845ca8d7df4ec0be34c3b217e4a5608505e5160fb911604d6a7