Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c97c0ab899bb1be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:30:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 545d78e908e334239ffd178256847221 SHA-1: 40cf43b119a76d185f772382148e0a474b732416 SHA-256: 6c97c0ab899bb1be9c9bff408b0e11f2f4e77d52a8606de059593c4855891a03
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one identified as a malicious redirector, which is a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded links likely serve to download and execute a second-stage payload, contributing to the overall malicious intent of the document.

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=al+nahar+journal+algerien+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.uticalax.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775668/bofomavo-rijasekoziw-jimejofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.barnes1ststepft.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681891/zosowadugug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dufeli.dandlpring.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/5812235.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/1/0434/7055/3250/files/walulawufusunedetova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3192/8740/files/19635903574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/mazanedemoluvolereni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3857/1670/files/61501844403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9639/files/56356325676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8801/8594/files/gukove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5725/0455/files/87671169271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8616/7702/files/16891084141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6333/5319/files/fazarutoxejedalat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7331/5740/files/jirawevukemejezugipomuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7259/4844/files/46975582918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8054/8503/files/toduratatupenepugoxuvatuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3000/3357/files/wobufusunasaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8662/4406/files/xufogorebufajemix.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off0000d5a7.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xD5A7 19368 bytes
SHA-256: 3d6c4656b8816e9e1561938832421de20eda167330882922b013b011ceced25d
font_00_sfnt_off00009de1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DE1 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 46d520900a22364c04c887acb854c8ad4873e15a3e9b7b6272e24190416b5684
font_01_sfnt_off0000af8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF8B 11184 bytes
SHA-256: 32b7691f9a5ffcbd45a112f53356a2c7771ca991baeab67b234d5394e27b85c2