Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86b537ad47dd5cf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 17:18:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8f0448823897ed1bfb009f1811ce3548 SHA-1: 59bd45d78399e4571f0d6fd8a572fd204ea30ab0 SHA-256: 86b537ad47dd5cf8289adc3314fa84284546f1e608093c314e3a54982d2adb89
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF document employs a social engineering tactic, masquerading as a download for Minecraft mods to lure users into clicking a malicious link. The link redirects to an SEO link farm, which is a common technique for distributing malware or phishing content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple redirector links reinforces this assessment.

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.
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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=minecraft+mods+for+xbox+360+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.remotesensinglab.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740375/xagutofanikekus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.discoversafedriving.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682892/nutoxalukan_pesatiwu_sideropa_juwalolemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mikeflasterstein.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437680/5952768.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/1/0436/2783/9641/files/didivuzija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1350/4156/files/rujaxetutewidog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8730/5629/files/66653770436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8624/1189/files/riboxujisavapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/japoxotoruzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1430/5430/files/kumusuwixezebulon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mulobovapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3391/9645/files/vafukizefizurelujifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2671/6584/files/52842992032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/28705113329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1048/8477/files/lojafesokodojel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9595/6386/files/3656165303.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8121/8710/files/20802781060.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_off00006ff1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF1 5932 bytes
SHA-256: 0ae7a5bd7fd8be5998941e879dab786a70749b3840cfef2e843771c589102f4e
font_01_sfnt_off00008425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8425 10084 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa29e7301e3f52414563a76b55e8489ffb06e43a52b76eb8af9e887261d341a