Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98036809569b3fae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 19:07:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 618908c4ccb8843826c5f3f0db85e948 SHA-1: f5cd2e3259ec9c319d8901f0ac69722b01b6ee04 SHA-256: 98036809569b3faeb015cb9627360a7000d420a90c0064b688edd07ebde83b57
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Addends

The PDF file exhibits malicious behavior through a high density of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further stages of an attack.

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/wb?keyword=assessment%20of%20semester%20system%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dogoxi.shamelesspress.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/wiwopejunamawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asianairspace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775201/8053209.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bojafer.foothillmiddlecollege.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/1068611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jusowu.hscgeographyeconomicactivity.hsieteachers.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/botewobigemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.knozeythetraveler.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969573/9280485.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/1/0447/1436/0985/files/articulos_de_tanatologia_forense.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7338/6136/files/nutrient_agar_merck.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0189/6347/files/kajutuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4464/0667/files/29760972741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6165/files/37168147847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3801/files/38309881295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4292/0869/files/75917984678.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2521/0263/files/apposer_une_signature_sur_un_document.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1311/8872/files/spencerian_practice_sheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/jivoresoniremowot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2936/3878/files/spelling_bee_grade_3_word_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8996/0861/files/bela_bartok_mikrokosmos_volume_1.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_off00005b24.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B24 4776 bytes
SHA-256: 8009517652169ccdf1c7dd2fa10f7cb887691ceabff61213e24a35c9d840bcf5
font_01_sfnt_off00006b46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B46 9612 bytes
SHA-256: 27ac4a3959fefbda2c32cf4565c97b7df6b943f1bf0c109e58a8a911e4449c23
font_02_sfnt_off00008c20.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C20 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333