Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b5d2351def6639f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-09-16 20:40:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5a0576b56886ada15aed3dcd6591c93c SHA-1: fe4664760bc0a26543d969f1b0de0b861bd5e9ae SHA-256: 7b5d2351def6639f5d80984efdb481462129e6dda1b72c3afe781c6225d58c54
194 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 redirector infrastructure and SEO link farms, indicating a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'solutions manual', a common lure for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple PDF links and a critical redirector link firing strongly suggests this document is part of a campaign to distribute 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.me/wix?keyword=financial+accounting+libby+solutions+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://sited.tnquarterhorsesales.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164112/wepabavebot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cantornote.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453592/suzisetokiviredaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kiwixep.mesmanfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438448/6036353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.zimmermansailing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776401/nugadusijokesimuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://keganawi.villageofhopeministries.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379956/4785698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://digitalcontentmarket.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Solutions-Manual-FundamentaIn 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/1/0432/4065/2960/files/36843652458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3840/7832/files/77045765501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6397/files/book_dedication_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8286/5058/files/945737312.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9886/0707/files/monthly_timeline_powerpoint_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://09ff10dd-af4c-472f-bd7f-f1edddd52c6d.filesusr.com/ugd/3ed902_bb17fcff288642e79e2b91b28a5eca0e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6f775e63-0572-4a21-9a42-1013e3d440fc.filesusr.com/ugd/3835dd_5689e07dca3347d1b179bca56342b994.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e47dbc4e-c64d-48bf-bd2a-fd9a02c34f9a.filesusr.com/ugd/8a05ec_0fadc5415df146d7bbf0ceb75d6f4d1d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://52d2b9e5-13ec-4a6b-8f3c-85192703f808.filesusr.com/ugd/f35da0_29bbc89e843247c2bf9da855b25e4f44.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://74bd50bf-46d7-4e3e-9b94-948df8982ef1.filesusr.com/ugd/fedf23_319aacfb225f405f9db4bd47805405e2.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000666c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x666C 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 8ee668ce4b9678dc16d5e0b0a276fa6f46b6ced98a54ba41090fca302dc1c527
font_01_sfnt_off0000795a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x795A 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 586716b79e4e861590768c827e76c78dca14179a7527da4e801d6e35bd7ade80