Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79800a24f8cb98fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:14:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 93e356c0abce1b3537ec0fd1424646b1 SHA-1: 438a18bbf4935ba98f9d8269e314196522509106 SHA-256: 79800a24f8cb98fc6c67db089029753efe79ff71c1933244370b1248ef7c61e7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document is designed as a lure, masquerading as an educational resource to trick users into clicking embedded links. These links lead to a redirector service that further directs users to a link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to host malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates malicious intent, and the presence of numerous external links, including a critical redirector, supports this assessment.

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=meaning+of+evaluation+in+education+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.airporthistory.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164063/kedepapuxizeju_viwesuxodamexa_vijux_xigiwebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rsdtech.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452922/tegonuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.communitygardensofventuracounty.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383358/63021100832.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mystiquesportfishing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636914/mupigelo-gijibajilinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.integrativefitnessnursing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482976/cdd82.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/1/0429/9715/3943/files/95357678142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9959/4656/files/mesinejesibixewixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3290/2806/files/zarivitezezarufeze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xasaxikopakepiditewevumub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6779/3817/files/chess_titans_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2988/3048/files/active_and_passive_voice_rules_for_all_tenses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5393/0901/files/download_fifty_shades_of_grey_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1629/8393/files/fopufej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1458/files/tumekefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2067/3433/files/kepazepipamir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6338/4991/files/mine_drake_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5339/1780/files/92173916965.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4218/6150/files/93734188599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/memew.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_off00007553.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7553 5116 bytes
SHA-256: 7d994baa1b1fa102296dbe4a23315be16b9bd66951abe2425d835f1205dc03ba
font_01_sfnt_off000086ef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86EF 10032 bytes
SHA-256: f525c48347d3596136ea141615bb9616d5680a2e93504940ec517a96d60c513b