Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5eba684fc39c9c70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 20:30:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 22fcb81e00463a88c5bdb238f53ab789 SHA-1: 4c849a971aa2c40babbd313894977b96b491c9a7 SHA-256: 5eba684fc39c9c7012352345c8ee05414dd466639ff01913adb1a0f65ca76db6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirector infrastructure, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a "deltran battery tender owners manual". The presence of embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

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.cc/pify?keyword=deltran+battery+tender+owners+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.muchzeal.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/2992d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahgancher.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775135/rakugu_luvixifij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0431/0876/1764/files/pujimuwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9570/4227/files/65005966588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2118/8763/files/modern_cv_templates_doc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5892/9570/files/mofukusatogogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/4963/9077/files/hallelujah_chorus_piano_solo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9707/9460/files/79729363222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7960/5147/files/ts_eamcet_bipc_allotment_order_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2508/9191/files/jurari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6626/9597/files/numbers_in_english_1_to_1000_in_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/3403/5622/files/meri_behna_hai_video.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_off000065c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C6 1892 bytes
SHA-256: 758a940b33d0b9dd43851977fb2c4914cc52866bf52844d45c37c845ffe07632
font_01_sfnt_off00006eb4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EB4 5304 bytes
SHA-256: c5fabad3597c9fbfd02a5b5f41c2d3c5e08c982a599c7eb2fe5ddf051a9fd851
font_02_sfnt_off000080b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80B6 9900 bytes
SHA-256: bc7315043b51db6f21f235cbdd6f5797b7e7eec3b30d3558a5ec56a144e0bde6