Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a9af5d66581513a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-07-23 07:50:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5a7b07e70dbbf08e329d7da0acd08574 SHA-1: de14d182c3c6d414aad6c1d55b845e12bc33fb19 SHA-256: 6a9af5d66581513a7bc65bde46076e45b1aa6f677c884ebed062c621dc2899e1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically a URL associated with a link farm and SEO spam. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains 'Amcas application pdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into believing it is a legitimate document. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/pify?keyword=amcas+application+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.elrinteriors.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453817/dumulemibiw_xefatijimumugij_jamiladatetexo_rorafure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westlakepetvet.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381946/kenuto-jexewes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vision-batteries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453934/fcf2a2e4a25141f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marksturgess.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682030/gadiloforasid.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/1/0434/9345/8070/files/21258956037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2960/files/donejugutakusag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8050/6773/files/81349270351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2528/5791/files/resojobinumuvojolifivem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kebubajogi.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jubozugamabimilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zodizijemas.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/masexojanusivovetazemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nenutarutu.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/zolotoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4410/1544/files/95392747409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0761/4882/files/vesanokegubugomusarek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4033/files/ruvoduganetigowog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/76685421079.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/16924515599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0801/6027/files/mamumubukasasirenagotufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7494/4153/files/jonunaloxisubuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3391/1705/files/jutifarexepugekumok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6718/7108/files/pewuxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6676/9051/files/fewuvonulesexivusefuwunux.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_off00009253.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9253 4864 bytes
SHA-256: 8c9fe68bbdc0b915f68f4c472569446c9b7d98d4092ad0761f2ea08f4d136a51
font_01_sfnt_off0000a2b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2B2 10532 bytes
SHA-256: a7eeee8968e1ebe0400296aa6a3be7f0a00c2a6b185759a715b68c6a2cb36796