Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 661809611e5f51e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:44:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 85fe1ad66abf5e83f51bffffc4f8cd04 SHA-1: c8706eadc1c635ee12f0a1dfd8a0934f983378c7 SHA-256: 661809611e5f51e962288c1a149d9044f3ef219b44dcb9b5b8c002aaee5ace82
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded document body text, though partially corrupted, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics, suggesting a phishing attempt disguised as a research paper download.

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=types+of+variables+in+research+with+examples+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.financialwriterssociety.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858044/ef3db726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.redmosaicjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857390/bazunilakap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.palmcoastflautorepair.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856186/metegug_sogokasipegoka_fedasile_buwuwakapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sunazevud.victimwitness.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856772/gotirojob_savadosi_radeso_kowob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.efjja.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408024/kasoras.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4398/6335/files/molewupisuwutaxoxerojetew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5199/7592/files/53732307235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3591/7473/files/naturumigir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4008/6935/files/a_single_shard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3329/7058/files/zanazuveruroxis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0659/8040/files/freedom_academy_synonyms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/90442425312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5264/6050/files/3_month_workout_plan_to_gain_muscle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1655/2605/files/8822536037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8713/4882/files/machine_learning_stock_market.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/84730902260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8108/0738/files/nameramokojuw.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_off00006a9d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A9D 5592 bytes
SHA-256: afdb058d24f9e2b0410c36141af69492bfdcdd077bf7dea2dcf7374628cedb2a
font_01_sfnt_off00007d87.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D87 10280 bytes
SHA-256: 0b9df8f7bea7995dd4771032279278a6893db033f1465c2c373b37b16cd0ec27
font_02_sfnt_off0000a06e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA06E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176