Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6728858867663fa2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b2419fc11fcdfb6683d2f10a060006f3 SHA-1: 99ce63d761ea7effd8f61cc66b529d09f3b1d3ea SHA-256: 6728858867663fa2e58412b07beeda1a9f2ec4da2710869544ca0a0f0bde34b1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external links suggests an attempt to distribute malware or lead users to malicious sites. The embedded URL points to a redirector that is known to be malicious.

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.ru/pify?keyword=business+communication+essentials+4th+canadian+edition+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.courtneyjette.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378990/200672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cshwhalingmuseum.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775192/bilamuvifosixar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.graceandgritshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/4946391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maevanaturals.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303359/niduvovanaxonib-tafisumuzemo.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/1/0432/8852/7013/files/kidetamazoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4327/4395/files/semomipojezabewalum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0163/4213/files/berlitz_espanol_niveles_1_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4020/9056/files/xubarakuworolujizomulebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7533/8389/files/pelamaredawamapuged.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1515/9458/files/respiracion_celular_aerobia_y_anaerobia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0683/5358/files/masobepizetaxumibetidajew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9986/4734/files/29111594577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6348/4315/files/79084843160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5996/1239/files/twelve_ordinary_men.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1423/4016/files/free_microsoft_word_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1016/8744/files/21901528156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4298/7422/files/51886173571.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000692a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x692A 5528 bytes
SHA-256: febbf73496405539d17010a11a46852dbdf1efbe4ae0ef4f630d7559a593dd03
font_01_sfnt_off00007bee.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BEE 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 8210ab0bf86b19617a4545b751ca95698c6c90f719c05984ac84d3dd524335c0

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