Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ebe81e83d5a9658…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.4 KB Created: 2020-08-15 02:52:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6ea8c5e8c21db8cee0fa1c9c1f8950f7 SHA-1: bda72b97ad263ad7a1fbd67fd28809a35c4d1304 SHA-256: 6ebe81e83d5a965847e3e4437d8bd88ea13658293a75be8d757f8695f1a4d98e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a redirector URL, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to a 'Nys police accident report manual'. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, indicates an attempt to create a link farm or distribute content, with the primary malicious link being the redirector.

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=nys+police+accident+report+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.stonycreekenglishshepherds.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409761/2990640.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/1/0437/8673/1681/files/misty_alto_sax_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7876/2139/files/the_bachelorette_2019_full_episodes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8421/0583/files/74721733506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5569/files/skripsi_budaya_jawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6530/3455/files/vadev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9872/5793/files/joromurifazixavam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8353/9366/files/60370396802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/80682342707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5424/1694/files/vesugewakat.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_off00009ad0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AD0 5288 bytes
SHA-256: 3825b43fccb98266fd2b7b153695ca128f793c04a4fa53ec2076e051c78d6061
font_01_sfnt_off0000acb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACB5 15928 bytes
SHA-256: bfdeee1b2f4e3c08edce2a23b70bce760539e3290ed1b8c9a61a17767879f19a