Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cbd0b84e14c397e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 13:53:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 72c166c3ef09c369187f6120df756a8f SHA-1: 79b0e76baf50dd0663f1d90604d99b301c1c12e0 SHA-256: 6cbd0b84e14c397ebc313b8bae5612567acedff2c4c2b2da2e788a036d25fdee
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded document body text, though corrupted, contains keywords related to IELTS and a URL that is also present in the heuristics, suggesting a lure for academic-related content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of numerous external links points to an SEO poisoning or link farm tactic.

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.ru/pify?keyword=ielts+writing+task+1+academic+answer+sheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wholistichelp.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302859/3404040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.intuitivemew.ca/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969077/b02aa93.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.homefromhomechildcarers.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873840/xawepoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.howardstantencoaching.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856433/495847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujax.em2profiles.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739204/futudewekedi.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/1/0431/8353/8331/files/guvowejimonadeveweb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6737/5777/files/787751245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5540/6494/files/bepiguvatazun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4939/files/xapofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6665/3858/files/24531725333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3750/files/befaladosomesojajuxokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1708/4833/files/83900640043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9898/1030/files/miriwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1161/8462/files/avenue_q_songs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1202/1662/files/college_physics_giambattista_4th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9959/4656/files/49274607172.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73792904944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6074/8695/files/95790696455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9173/9295/files/firanuruxofalududelasasev.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_off00004c5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C5D 5716 bytes
SHA-256: 2e057dc757342c4aac958efb810e3486ec025404f9858419dd3a7491090c17b2
font_01_sfnt_off00005fc2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FC2 14260 bytes
SHA-256: 03921cbdfcce3afc41eb66b4dd329bbdab858c85286457e66a9a30aaaaa3ef64