Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8554ac6f866c0926…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:20:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 341d5ca46fd0c43f03689c9e9b564b3f SHA-1: 602e19a28306e6eaf6a6e7f927bd5d64355a1282 SHA-256: 8554ac6f866c0926e60749de2a8d94a60178db94fd91ac48fdfb89b6f4fd0668
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a known malicious redirector, likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site under the guise of providing study notes. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of embedded links and the ML classifier's high confidence score support this assessment.

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=class+10+biology+control+and+coordination+notes+pdf+dronstudy In PDF document text
    • http://files.elementssalononline.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738836/puwifami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edfwarbirds.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383323/69ac67a520386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.weddingsatheronswoodgarden.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407818/3377311.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glutenfreeaf.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969012/misaguxerara.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/1/0431/2013/2247/files/chain_rule_calculus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/9050/3832/files/el_viaje_del_heroe_joseph_campbell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1116/8663/files/networking_study_guides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1845/files/14657519577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9816/7713/files/bujatenasoruvazuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9661/0718/files/womabubetemofakan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1751/7731/files/fozobilisezuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9456/1188/files/change_to_word_document_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5253/8787/files/52122312265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5583/2469/files/76975793966.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5598/8374/files/6225659347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1035/8423/files/94851929241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5398/8510/files/attestation_de_salaire_vierge.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000889b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x889B 5664 bytes
SHA-256: 7ef742998438c9fa00f17322b9dd53a1b9e114b3501f0149e9efdebdb47492c2
font_01_sfnt_off00009bf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BF2 9912 bytes
SHA-256: 97ae266abe69a836fe2f130525bb8155300c2fcaa7b0232ff71112b6b3e75778
font_02_sfnt_off0000be22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE22 16084 bytes
SHA-256: 6d38ff9756b44e93370057f415a6b7525cfc4d36dc85ac4eaac6687eec13ddca