Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78301f1338d99ac7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 16:26:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 11afc3dd1f17c677e6119cfaad5dff25 SHA-1: 20dd562b31338e11bf7545861ae5969c1eb72bc9 SHA-256: 78301f1338d99ac70d339124446c011d332e6f5cc6e0edaf5924f13f71521ebe
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate tutorial downloads but redirect to malicious infrastructure. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious, and the document body contains text related to 'javascript tutorial pdf download free', suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=javascript+tutorial+pdf+download+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.terricohn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381681/mujitiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annaparkernaples.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739919/8324550.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stbrigidstaugustinepartnership.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437889/lajarodusipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mhecblacon.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437351/vasak.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/texirid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5314/6517/files/62141545401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1173/5705/files/jezevogesinifodanariga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7860/6229/files/mobawevijetileduzogivapol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3546/7669/files/bapofarekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6667/1782/files/lewiston_me_weather.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7618/0376/files/xolaninojudiwowazidebali.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/golalebilafofuzugetuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1972/2152/files/66238998793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2476/0488/files/rafeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4275/7029/files/26202831214.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E3C 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 1505f705b05eed44c4ebe952f5d85d6a02bb547ea3987893a03b54b5635fb0a7
font_01_sfnt_off00007064.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7064 10048 bytes
SHA-256: b5ca3c77373bade409f02c8909e9205418c6c404a9db5de6a5da380fad0cacc9
font_02_sfnt_off00009301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9301 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 67bcfb7c388726f5c3b45134396d4daeb52989b52d679508e6f393a01196499c