Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 943f9bb796eff7e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 02:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b10a230618c5cfa6a2555c165c893981 SHA-1: a2c0a7e5f9fe4ea99ed93db333686a87d1ca3ae6 SHA-256: 943f9bb796eff7e7dd80526af4af1159855207b2f2142fc53c8e1bd07e683aa5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identifies a malicious redirector link, suggesting an attempt to lure users to harmful content. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. While the document body contains seemingly benign text related to grammar worksheets, the embedded links and heuristic firings point towards a malicious intent, likely to manipulate search engine results or redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

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=adjective+clauses+with+prepositions+worksheets In PDF document text
    • http://files.redwingfarm.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637273/b60dea50d597c8d.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/1/0434/9588/2918/files/unearthed_arcana_5e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1883/0492/files/moviescounter_2018_hollywood_movies.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8800/2710/files/croft_syntactic_categories_and_grammatical_relations.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9018/1286/files/retonevupebesubatufaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3280/5527/files/98687369796.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/20880330559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7589/4422/files/manual_de_economia_politica_urss.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3665/5259/files/12795457982.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2606/2239/files/zibew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3397/7255/files/jejuximejoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2065/6545/files/list_of_famous_inventions_and_inventors_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0858/7936/files/anonymity_and_confidentiality_in_research.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zipepatijexozuzazes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/fetujiraxabag.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_off00006f20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F20 5324 bytes
SHA-256: a10364e8fa0a2e63710b534f0c9c522554c183a187cb34b736ca8581651874a7
font_01_sfnt_off0000813f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x813F 10524 bytes
SHA-256: c99451cf6886422960315aa286877722ba4ad086548ac5320eaab193561765fb
font_02_sfnt_off0000a52c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA52C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333