Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8006f4f041ec92bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 10:49:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ead8981b1d94ff493db0adfc350f9e4e SHA-1: e395b7760a29d037f9823f9c6ccdf8cbb50eda87 SHA-256: 8006f4f041ec92bd6d63bbfc33ca0a1b7dd1cd01b2b3a90192e0991932a690ef
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as a "2010 vw cc owners manual pdf" but redirect to malicious infrastructure. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicate a deliberate attempt to create a link farm for SEO purposes, likely to phish users. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded links are the primary attack vector.

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.cc/pify?keyword=2010+vw+cc+owners+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ozarkmountainregionalpwa.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740482/e5382953f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nissajackman.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636748/xetupowebu-salidakow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harmonizeyourspace.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302913/6922088.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/1/0433/3905/5253/files/tixexiwelobov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9014/0581/files/pokemon_go_0._29._2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4613/2119/files/9007078672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0724/files/89796125801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1952/5534/files/47297786116.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1086/7871/files/gojelidofugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9619/5737/files/18976387927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/niwewipijowunugimamotamap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5373/6351/files/79409748749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2278/6466/files/asap_rocky_downloads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3119/0952/files/4799450782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7954/1671/files/zugimamojawinedasom.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_off00005266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5266 5684 bytes
SHA-256: e9b3cd66d096372768fd2c2f5b5393365424eee725eda193705b02de76515bad
font_01_sfnt_off000065c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C4 10232 bytes
SHA-256: 91fd8fd53b3b03ba1b59ed61ac73ee8922f377dd7f046b5d54dfa644e6b1e3cf