Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a98fd677bd9cfc6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 15:46:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 42f9cfac119ef04254223aeb050b04f1 SHA-1: cb0b4f52f021d86028c237e4cc77fbe1a37f1dd4 SHA-256: 8a98fd677bd9cfc6045f94c169aa21ec3f381ff7bf4f38608a1dab56e66a6198
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with at least one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Tamil calendar january 2019 pdf' and also includes the malicious redirector URL. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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.com/wb?keyword=tamil%20calendar%20january%202019%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lakelandplayers.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070938/0481c0ae53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadim.norcalstma.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/satana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theventure.blog/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775840/7894618.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/1/0448/6037/5201/files/restaurant_training_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2443/9704/files/59750661212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0044/6626/files/free_printable_guardianship_forms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7278/files/pegutomul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3883/2800/files/where_does_quicken_printer_save_files.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4547/6762/files/app_store_optimization_bible.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1355/4855/files/8038862209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2112/2211/files/33471745190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3219/files/tobelo.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

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Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000049a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x49A0 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 1f180d7d132ec70fce394cdb21df871e5071b1ccb574fafa6bede4c387a1c3ca
font_01_sfnt_off00005bf2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BF2 3024 bytes
SHA-256: f747eae70b613a7addfe878d940650e583504124e476350495eb712ecf3e0446
font_02_sfnt_off00006720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6720 9600 bytes
SHA-256: 817a9de0d199d30b9a83e2b2c980b90ebd3e5b05f4038745f61f5ee2b9825a8d
font_03_sfnt_off0000882b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x882B 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 5d52f40a13f54bcc329d29992e3abd0fd28294c8bc547691d9075fb1d42365f7
font_04_sfnt_off00009cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CD0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361

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