Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 842fc46a1e6a2227…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:15:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fff757f4c441e419278e69c1fe2f668f SHA-1: 757664863b9919578afceb2dcd6114ff984808ca SHA-256: 842fc46a1e6a2227cfed8bab3f703a241e6f45128605023715452d6ad6c613a4
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'free download' and includes the malicious redirector URL. The presence of a download button lure and a large number of external PDF links suggests a phishing or scam attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=english+newspaper+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.stevenpbrady.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606878/6275963d420c8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jexek.gardenstyleonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874317/jujozalok-vixilabona-fejadewiniwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.filmaim.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740536/saxof_lizedi_joziso_xatiritudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crossfitsouthforney.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406806/d3d4dde1.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/1/0439/1315/0632/files/complete_physics_for_cambridge_secondary_1_workbook_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/totavari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4249/5899/files/teas_test_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xiwisabimetabif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0642/5249/files/sarujeti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9647/3749/files/unity_blur_shader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6880/1695/files/lojodiluvujugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/41933606375.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3876/files/bamukukaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5601/9109/files/coraline_graphic_novel_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5467/8687/files/zuvofidilavonejo.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000053e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53E9 5352 bytes
SHA-256: cd393c44be292fbdfdd279fbece943278c33b35084acd5ab090e83a9a99b496d
font_01_sfnt_off00006630.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6630 10152 bytes
SHA-256: 56a9c8e26038c7b5627158e9fbd455e8d70fcb4e547d89723b15b0697fecdd42

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