Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9246888ce66dec52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 00:59:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cee803f7bfddd89e7a643478e7259a9a SHA-1: 21fedf3985c7e11e5cb0c0468c6f45676ca7c7ff SHA-256: 9246888ce66dec52918b2587530696f9025193c71ebb41ba3789cbfaee2a9188
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector service, indicating a link farm or phishing lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely part of the lure, aiming to redirect users to malicious content or phishing pages.

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.cc/pify?keyword=connected+components+workbench+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.trudiboatwright.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/1643265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.helpfulmeditation.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379085/6063226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://folipi.strategicshift.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776433/2461950.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/1/0431/8769/9876/files/jupox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2025/4375/files/zovutezusanele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2411/4076/files/43574390140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1470/9670/files/tuzojifedoxobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/8853/8776/files/lactometer_reading_of_milk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5467/7662/files/butixejozoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0776/1819/files/lusipufana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9861/9557/files/25304729008.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9212/2527/files/namewisuzasavowagos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/daroguzepotazinisemupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6441/6661/files/magic_the_gathering_macintosh.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4241/4492/files/legend_drake_lyrics.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_off000078f5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F5 5596 bytes
SHA-256: 92d2ef31600709575a307a88dc55446c6aaef8b1812118f73610f50706e83c46
font_01_sfnt_off00008bda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BDA 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 940306dc6b13c2d7f162d4c64e798524f6487669b6d8c1ac185434e1c305c7e0

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