Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 69ff4ea166623fc1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 96f8b3412329254fd5ff9276dc51b910 SHA-1: 6c2db816544d03651ac508656fdfa55616b6090d SHA-256: 69ff4ea166623fc15457b599c73896caa2a31ecf202723eb3391f46e1966de3a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and SEO link farming, specifically pointing to a lure for a lectionary document. The primary malicious URL identified is a redirector that likely leads to a phishing or malware download site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and mentions 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated by a tool rather than being a legitimate document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=anglican+church+of+southern+africa+lectionary+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://siwives.hublerfamilybusiness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776262/dbc70db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.charsrestaurant.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680869/1958753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.love1040.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871704/fanonov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jpravensbergen.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683181/6190965.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/1/0434/7287/9782/files/bopomogaguzetoresigeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5115/5609/files/bimurixapusopibuzesugoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5588/8022/files/acute_myeloid_leukemia_pathophysiology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0050/4217/files/sozerilemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2576/6312/files/50641504082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6368/0929/files/fire_detector_installation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4556/1254/files/xejivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7565/6097/files/sidejotubukuzafo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5829/1093/files/sociology_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/4681/6155/files/alstonia_scholaris.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1755/2543/files/jepoxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5833/0786/files/dishonored_2_trainer.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_off00007d7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D7B 5780 bytes
SHA-256: 48f89ee230411b2bc387b592010ee38e6d43739013de113c5ad410dc18a97a5a
font_01_sfnt_off00009122.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9122 10580 bytes
SHA-256: 3b43b3bab9f2e66501c83dea4cfb6955925dc13c5dbc90fbf04ebe874d1afe44