Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79651a0e84f0b7bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:41:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5885595ac30b205274a04bede987cdb0 SHA-1: 482c4bbb9deaf2dc8ee1a8ce04b6234bfd02e2de SHA-256: 79651a0e84f0b7bf5a2ab0bcf74407775962f76a150c187ad44456c309887668
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it links to malicious redirector infrastructure and uses a social engineering lure to trick users into installing software or downloading files. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector found in the heuristics. The presence of embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious nature of this PDF.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=game+insaniquarium+free+full+version In PDF document text
    • http://files.sew-at-home.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681443/safafofozudul-mezabagetug-razimodogewu-wofazubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wolffwords.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397940/5b573e5d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rileg.heraldinghistruthministries.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302782/5de8c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://girezafo.mazopublishers.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856080/9885688.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/1/0430/5689/0013/files/25667390418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9191/0038/files/64202178678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1177/6416/files/corresponding_and_alternate_angles_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4189/0210/files/gekevedawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5910/9279/files/64978092995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9427/0371/files/aafco_pet_food_labeling_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9344/2208/files/86000523510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5583/1445/files/dajavepagujuja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5573/5199/files/fallout_3_fose.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6598/0581/files/73619706366.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9910/2115/files/synonyms_dictionary_free_download.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_off000058a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58A2 5132 bytes
SHA-256: 3534faf4090b97cc5b3e6fbfb7fe9df29392e2eb1c8cf252818bb48edcd00308
font_01_sfnt_off00006a13.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A13 10256 bytes
SHA-256: 4397b41289a0057a26a10ac733286310f8e084425837f120d82f5b5c9de28cd9