Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6eef7b4989a2bcfc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 16:42:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 324243b77dfc421efc4d4f39eb5c8a93 SHA-1: 2792d4b6df75b87a293c586996c48267962b4eac SHA-256: 6eef7b4989a2bcfcb85361a47fbfd6853f96cba616fcba32469017fb5bb51a9e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs and a primary redirector link, indicating a link farm strategy. The ML classifier and critical heuristics confirm malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of embedded URLs suggests an attempt to direct users to external, potentially malicious, content.

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=castrol+5w30+edge+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.donnasboy.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/7e2c731f0b9a9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.burmusik.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681885/xetemedakaji-zesuzuzimed-junawizevona-suxutuvixane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brysonfinney.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871690/652255720c77a24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.japhotos.me/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969346/91b06dffa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tynesidebookclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813582/6424547.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/1/0433/2778/3080/files/39143600460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4648/3606/files/47108327809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4356/1376/files/2304621284.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3373/9932/files/gitedamarowodugusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1878/7736/files/allahabad_state_university_time_table_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3549/0461/files/32973546394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4449/4760/files/asturias_tab_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9902/7611/files/29862419180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/sutilifizukeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9671/1069/files/20275441870.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_off0000512e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x512E 5636 bytes
SHA-256: ecfc007a47ce2526b0d59e9964f31de2bb4f10a7cb640772ece5b3343338e62a
font_01_sfnt_off00006478.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6478 10216 bytes
SHA-256: e8bc7e439191602a5bf6219d79860a9bd432ae7dc67b2c94621aa768d69188ad