Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f6c4df82fc2c348…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:41:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e100f9ccd1d0b43c5c16d00bed93ad30 SHA-1: 1aed09037c13ac91e0ebfc3035106797110aa447 SHA-256: 7f6c4df82fc2c348d445cedf450c1133401563a5bdc9e663f0cee0376f315f23
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service, which in turn leads to other PDF files. This behavior is indicative of a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially deliver malware. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the structure and linked content suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=b.+p.+lathi+signal+processing+and+linear+systems+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.whitneydavisliterary.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813714/6158397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newadventuresamejourney.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407469/ab65607f7d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jasonleary.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856158/f8c8d196f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.modelmefamous.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710661/4792974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trinitariancongregationalchurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813378/zalazisar_watunepodemeve.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/1/0435/0250/2048/files/ikea_catalog_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4656/8098/files/56993254090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8292/3676/files/87905422967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3196/2535/files/98326180571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80023348890.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9259/files/bivariate_normal_distribution_conditional.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2638/1975/files/lugokefiwivutigokujifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89120683065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6150/1336/files/avery_18660_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7303/6697/files/it_project_manager_resume.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_off000047a8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47A8 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 6b7608fc6b4dab0b3377f48807ce1534050269b1a69a5e86ee4b3abc238d85ba
font_01_sfnt_off00005a4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A4D 9348 bytes
SHA-256: fb9871a7c7a2668dec49469a62f484365caf42ca57abc1e3843601dc87e7e0d8
font_02_sfnt_off00007a44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A44 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176