Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77c9b44890cdcbd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:29:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 602b28eb196cad33baf1e2af609b9f7c SHA-1: 5cf6c4230332d3d1f25bfb8ebc70733d204b66f1 SHA-256: 77c9b44890cdcbd619260668814cb63ad36820d3e8da14e99e2ce373a6c016eb
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure using a 'cover letter sample' to encourage clicks on these links. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a malicious redirector URL supports a phishing or scam attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=cover+letter+sample+for+resume+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://besukera.stellaheducationcenter.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302872/jesosunemas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fcchoirs.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482968/4117951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wakekuj.oldlakewoodshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/5fb76.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shizokukaratedo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438234/lomif-joxaw-posegogekumo.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/1/0431/8691/3431/files/dupuzakedezuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9097/6673/files/sexuvafukufusirup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8491/3563/files/fakanevobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gidawibozifuniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8775/7461/files/varuvomukex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7221/6483/files/card_player_magazine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7945/files/download_adele_25_album.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/280680.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3070/8385/files/kimokusazewewonasaluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2459/files/zevedivamematexomipusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74195332560.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_off00006695.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6695 5000 bytes
SHA-256: 3a5ba82451ecb9a2bb33c8dd3c039b63dbea539cc0df55ea6f7dc9dbc9c83fd8
font_01_sfnt_off000077a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A8 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 8e6552397b47588c8ff34d35d85713893c5fc128d3f5f02c64b14d8e79cb7e1e
font_02_sfnt_off00009aae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AAE 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176