Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ac1ff54e871890c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 12:29:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 562b8edc269998408dd46db9b474e0a0 SHA-1: eae0177193ca1be812775bd746c03f852fd61ca8 SHA-256: 6ac1ff54e871890cb8bdec83f92222a66b79feb78bdb75cc0b2f36fa94287873
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a redirector URL, disguised as an academic worksheet. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or phishing attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URLs are the primary indicators of malicious intent.

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/wb?keyword=ionic%20bonding%20lewis%20dot%20structure%20worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://wukinuran.simplydirecthealth.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776394/xawabin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuwigo.zackannfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482993/9388812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ovsassociation.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695536/dc078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lostbanditmedia.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740480/1087086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebeccafalcasantos.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398332/674229.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/1/0434/3644/1767/files/10432063933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/40369191557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6370/4729/files/61794101735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1614/2491/files/acer_aspire_5733_drivers_windows_7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9114/8444/files/xadijok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7416/2581/files/word_analogy_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3873/4496/files/66265223330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7285/5957/files/git_discard_all_local_changes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2580/0087/files/widebo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2762/0249/files/jisetijuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9452/2518/files/fijofimeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9484/1246/files/reporter_news_ethiopian.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5097/5910/files/36538809990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/solicited_vs_unsolicited.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_off000046aa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46AA 5224 bytes
SHA-256: f8fa57a30ad3d17b304a86ba73f89fdb9079df2531fe145735b76648cbb8d208
font_01_sfnt_off0000587b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x587B 9036 bytes
SHA-256: b78ea6192f1e0da9f68d3ee72d89c5ca8c49b252bbf70e744de9560332f13309