Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e43ec397ee56cb1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 02:12:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f7956db7fb7269e3b62506107853f93b SHA-1: fbc3a0219c02bb917607f2d55e31ad6134de5907 SHA-256: 6e43ec397ee56cb15c2660ef9b6cc1750ef6ec3b6726e13b05702ef3422275e9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to an SEO redirector infrastructure designed to distribute other PDF files. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious, suggesting an attempt to lead users to harmful content under the guise of providing useful documents. The ML classifier strongly indicates 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.cc/pify?keyword=metric+conversion+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ashleescreativeartsacademy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871433/zukatavifabexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mentalhealthjunkie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407183/670c2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.njjba.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453402/8b056c212422e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.finksdeli.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741222/5b0259.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/1/0435/0004/4440/files/tutorial_dashboard_excel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2956/9434/files/nafatolin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2127/7096/files/honda_small_engine_repair.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6689/2186/files/35588555565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7343/7847/files/cholesterol_synthesis_steps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9295/9642/files/91661304409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3303/3877/files/72403813341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8804/4447/files/35820071101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1534/7103/files/32974339485.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4069/3662/files/m4a_to_m4r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0580/4698/files/wekikaraguxubus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4863/9391/files/inovao_acadmica_e_aprendizagem_ativa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1098/2041/files/sizibofumusevumevonapeso.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_off00006691.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6691 5012 bytes
SHA-256: 03acc35d3c8f39d0eab49cb1cd774cbb7cb0f97b2bc0f432bc40849c7110dd50
font_01_sfnt_off000077b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77B2 10132 bytes
SHA-256: 2ebe4a8b658500af901cdb4bb0819b3ce700e7aff196e7bc87384287dbf50470
font_02_sfnt_off00009a69.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A69 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34