Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 680c8c49bc77aa78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 16:25:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 78d858e965b38a5595405ef7326e4b07 SHA-1: a86c767b17dd198efc305335d87736d71c91f202 SHA-256: 680c8c49bc77aa7893aff22c6b04b2455ecbbb59a289b938a3aa684a70354f1f
254 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains a URL that impersonates Microsoft, suggesting a credential phishing attempt or a lure for a second-stage download. The presence of numerous PDF links and a redirector URL points towards a campaign distributing malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure high SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: call-to-action link host does not match the impersonated brand: https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=transmitting+form+t1013.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=transmitting+form+t1013 In PDF document text
    • http://files.thelowvisionstore.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438157/jigasujevufax_bekix_xidilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.markneeley.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775023/nevowefawunamudalag.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/1/0433/4108/6888/files/82033001326.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1586/3452/files/fuxade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4900/0864/files/pdf_sociologia_general.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9513/8208/files/linux_system_administrator_roles_and_responsibilities.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2720/8091/files/93340271338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8850/2174/files/98861230249.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5572/6238/files/gogopala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6333/files/tigimejarabawolupiveri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5113/8715/files/definition_of_growth_and_development_in_psychology.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_off00007af3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF3 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 8d6d5eba18a3f5fa8d5bf81d281cd5f354434f74138b5443e37b048f4d300c85
font_01_sfnt_off00008d12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D12 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 3a8f6612a2a299a018509e84745e50513c87741bd999f0c773243961c37a5ca9