Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f4d02ea7025e478…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 05:08:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: de2f4b2737e4bddb354bc0d9d1038e33 SHA-1: 1c4c708c590fb04068022114465c4b4e8861c2fa SHA-256: 6f4d02ea7025e47872343fcef57c18e9920e47d34fe5881bbe5e9b893c6ce7f6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for 'public speaking skills for students pdf' which likely leads to a phishing or malware download page. The presence of a malicious redirector and a large number of external links strongly indicates an attempt to lead users to 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.cc/pify?keyword=public+speaking+skills+for+students+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xinamoj.kansasnursingstudents.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/fesirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arespta.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814119/5046027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fadan.projectnohunger.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/2213426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kikab.dunollycottage.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/wezerevusu.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/1/0431/2317/9677/files/arabic_words_to_english_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4464/files/54713605803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3803/1518/files/nimezefusebowal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9183/6566/files/34108442992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0835/files/xogimunurek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1800/2340/files/wide_eye_meme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3748/1365/files/46592534999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7399/4905/files/sovuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3437/7377/files/641647133.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17612659915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5118/6336/files/pathfinder_burnt_offerings_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1381/5966/files/itextsharp_convert_html_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8531/4715/files/icp_discography_kickass.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0840/files/5805821355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/229905594.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_off00006682.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6682 5528 bytes
SHA-256: 764a52aca5d74a8ccc971508f8112e43913a37c75e52f7fc51fa9963f1d1ee84
font_01_sfnt_off0000794f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x794F 10300 bytes
SHA-256: 24275221386c0883f47dd39e6f39393ca7248253196b10a7ad9a8a488af651f5