Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 979789ab1485a92c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-03 09:55:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c945fd220e66f1beff74b2ec1e8981aa SHA-1: ce83daa9da909b14abaaeb33401249bd55b67203 SHA-256: 979789ab1485a92ceee57e3b2934608ad61a0a5d80828b920a9abfaadd0e06f1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded links that are part of a link farm, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'Educational psychology 10th edition pdf'. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to serve further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.ru/pify?keyword=educational+psychology+10th+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ycvideos.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813755/vidowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rebekahlpurdy.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164076/9543912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesmesupportdirector.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814238/bajiravox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dollsforeverychild.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871556/zimebiw_vidisito_ripupudexodof.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/1/0430/2517/0595/files/lozewisaxaroja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6238/6079/files/smash_bros_dojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/28938065461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8683/0998/files/xopifeduzofejetawowube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4383/1458/files/bifiwifefojujowodimeno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1329/9620/files/80074991981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4293/9814/files/68317174496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0428/1511/files/78319579315.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8152/files/kozadedaxox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2190/9662/files/fuvuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2702/1480/files/11295719407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/13121593915.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_off0000737d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x737D 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 668d037439692c37d27545cbda233ab99346801b87d9a5b84737e9971e3a7892
font_01_sfnt_off0000868a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x868A 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 4245908d15f59890f531924069f3dcd5af3baa9b6faab11a0806dc7ab96ff963

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