Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6aa6bcc77482c6f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:57:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9083bfcbd2011cd483f1a7382346d097 SHA-1: 144419e6051171c8314fa817d0d02191d51b0eb4 SHA-256: 6aa6bcc77482c6f16f0ac915c8c51df766c9c6a327f1065a548cc8d3842edc7f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, which is a common tactic for distributing malicious content or phishing pages. The document body, while appearing to be educational material, contains embedded URLs that lead to this redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the conclusion that this document is designed to lead users to harmful sites.

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=subtracting+fractions+worksheets+with+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.youroasis4health.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814066/c3446e7742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.paperboyproductions.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437683/bakakevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dennispaulus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682039/6230400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reginamoessmerdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776449/dutarina-nefaloxenip-xuwefizakaxuxel-vomosesebipek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.litezone.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871501/2220265.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/1/0437/7287/0807/files/sizibilukawezuvevibiwasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2621/8136/files/gelunow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/tafejuxofalolikif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6647/5164/files/wilutukowiminakomofumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7720/6178/files/3570923697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1021/8391/files/vekibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4555/1271/files/witurujawupadifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6213/2897/files/bebigem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6264/7189/files/55372774555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7658/2560/files/sigugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9171/2405/files/45442229073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7862/2111/files/gewalowovisilude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4878/files/wisutunerepipometazoveduv.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_off00006cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CBF 5664 bytes
SHA-256: 7a1b03bbf44987ec05dab7ef8f9d9108e1a6951e475afc949b0dd8f993a99f53
font_01_sfnt_off00008002.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8002 9864 bytes
SHA-256: 80341be476883eef0952a5d0c62149f7da35dcc7983434bb2e811c100141292d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1C4 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378