Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6094127b70f0a065…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 17:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 408654f75c9dcb0d0632a7c14783b798 SHA-1: 2e6611fdf42be74aeb9e53e30a9b3caa3180f1a9 SHA-256: 6094127b70f0a065386a1998ee619176bd3496354a1baa1c618529f53c207c1e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector URL (https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=learning+functional+programming+in+go). This suggests a link farm or phishing lure designed to direct users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution vectors.

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=learning+functional+programming+in+go In PDF document text
    • http://files.ourfrenchimpressions.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814448/8491536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jajuf.biocompositesgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408024/bumosixolelidowoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamodow.scouttrout.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857054/e3669e802.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/1/0437/3915/2535/files/vozezivuwusomeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/musigusuwekun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8948/4194/files/97561806716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8947/5237/files/97198299022.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2272/0922/files/array_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3395/9327/files/badminton_shots_and_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9438/4546/files/90639421974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2557/files/joxivalatijaposekilimel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4453/files/bayesian_analysis_with_python_osvaldo_martin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0769/5258/files/porsche_cayenne_2020_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2587/2549/files/60874816064.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9177/7952/files/case_study_research_approach.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9743/2999/files/mechanical_reasoning_test_gears.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_off00007436.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7436 5100 bytes
SHA-256: a05385e486f65d6bc054aa17c786c4edfed2e570a50008f550d4f2a064569517
font_01_sfnt_off0000857e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x857E 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 24f8745242ba92601268bb4813c0c9311c2f523be866c5c65869b4cca8b08564