Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89304c848c66b00e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:03:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4c03df603aeb837d62564a2d0afbedb1 SHA-1: c2b728058382cdbb2fb65278a27462a60057841b SHA-256: 89304c848c66b00e536e5d3c9b885c159fa41670a98de2eb1f800988048dec1c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links and a visible call-to-action button, directing users to a redirector URL that appears to be part of an SEO link farm. This suggests a tactic to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute traffic to a network of malicious or spam PDFs. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the link farm behavior is a known tactic for distributing unwanted content.

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=exercise+on+simple+past+tense+with+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.atruechristian.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453982/kakepa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phimi.pt/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482954/4e834d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nysaafg.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070872/c56ee33e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6759/6184/files/penetaluxofejadoxizuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0580/4698/files/botulujisiwix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1189/7504/files/mawetorezerewugixopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8728/0790/files/banking_awareness_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7537/1159/files/kurorulawalafikud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0386/2440/files/dutusukup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8052/4710/files/11742967901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7880/files/difference_between_parametric_and_nonparametric_statistical_tests.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7526/4924/files/52836358973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2402/3715/files/zavazalivasidajaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1940/2397/files/jadug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3830/1594/files/69291460766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6104/1559/files/public_infrastructure_asset_management.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004d5d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D5D 5080 bytes
SHA-256: afece606632d5ddf0f57017784009b423e64ab1fc0035be37517fd912a7e9fd0
font_01_sfnt_off00005e79.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E79 9996 bytes
SHA-256: e25ca8c520b0f36224c87363976ce0e85ac317c29b40da50e08baf99e4dbd5c2
font_02_sfnt_off000080bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80BC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e