Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84e1db9182136cd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:19:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97f34b4e5c16f48ba0d745809bd564f9 SHA-1: 24be30ee130bf861189dac17bd4aaac31de9d578 SHA-256: 84e1db9182136cd0207f116d89ce1048eb2f0c92580780205511f67141150402
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The document's content and structure suggest it is part of an SEO link farm designed to lure users into downloading what appears to be academic material, but which actually leads to malicious infrastructure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=introduction+to+forensic+anthropology+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.elizabethbernays.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483266/f27bf3899.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.norcalsmartvestorpro.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/96f0fa3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.delsurvey.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437883/bevaki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dotevupij.maplegroveumciowa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482995/texidusenatuxoz.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/1/0432/9465/4632/files/25749629261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7451/8180/files/wijisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2230/2888/files/vugufatekefi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0583/6444/files/widonitopaloleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8940/2783/files/australia_political_map_blank.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8110/4541/files/6877055109.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3352/4386/files/lovufo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7701/8524/files/95807327090.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1204/6495/files/calicut_university_bsc_computer_science_syllabus_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3846/6467/files/33510170555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8570/1019/files/19691151308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2063/9646/files/automatisme_informatique_industrielle.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_off00005279.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5279 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 3d8873e2e1de0057e021fdaa393ee077bbd30261726d5c926187cba2d4b90ce4
font_01_sfnt_off00006510.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6510 10212 bytes
SHA-256: 58fb788d5eafe3c38c09f499037db7fa3208671cc4e94f1af923ec2215a52ac5

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