Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dad78f28d80595d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:31:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4a44afeee3954fb9ff4b4486b8353979 SHA-1: aba79c3bd2e6b6042026fc0955e5f4ea37cb9eec SHA-256: 6dad78f28d80595d7d72b68612ccdde43ace523f4ce42d7bd26acc22caff2f49
282 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a large number of SEO-optimized PDF links. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for downloading a 'popcap games download zip'. The presence of heuristics for a 'download button', 'password-protected archive lure', and 'security bypass instruction' strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with very high confidence.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=popcap+games+download+zip In 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/1/0438/8916/4440/files/mannix_theme_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7780/3925/files/dabavumujipilogovexexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6006/0314/files/surprised_by_joy_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0762/2817/files/38880834477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8646/2628/files/time_value_of_money_concept.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2215/4908/files/70339026570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4697/7179/files/32879743416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/4658476069.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7463/4403/files/95564128260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8063/7859/files/pagopuxegibubevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0884/2152/files/13888773993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4012/0733/files/basizoxovolatowasurolab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/matter_and_interactions_3rd_edition_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5038/2998/files/gejaxapexik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.popcap.com/NotIn 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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000058d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58D3 5440 bytes
SHA-256: f3646084b18f7a556c631683df71ca07fba8d3b9d03a469cc6a0f0c3e5cd59cd
font_01_sfnt_off00006b56.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B56 10888 bytes
SHA-256: 4c8ca6788ed7bbb37a80dfc309a94f9f0cb7cced01f648ff98160afd011c98eb
font_02_sfnt_off000090b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90B0 16744 bytes
SHA-256: 2d156610547c6b02f33be9b60b2ccc2c35e689ae01f73c0cb1a51f977a4fd472