Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a6dfa768bde6993…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 05:44:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dca4ef421a922249dd1875a12c14ab61 SHA-1: 3a54bf03d74e4dc9fdab5d12b0754b9f91ad75c5 SHA-256: 9a6dfa768bde699384f30244bfe2b30627884debbaf7f778a48044f2df435d69
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a prominent link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Synonyms and antonyms pdf download' and the URL itself, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the PDF is part of a larger link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious links. The SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON heuristic further supports the lure aspect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/pify?keyword=synonyms+and+antonyms+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.thevamcommanders.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775623/8594934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.densityanalytics.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814769/57a960d0c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pandgdolls.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437319/1ef127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://danuluv.karishmadonde.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/barafupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artforhorses.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380894/6d3de7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/83684565252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8120/3861/files/xivupuzujigeregetume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9946/4611/files/14559288737.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/rowipewusalewewixugav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3251/8549/files/83796580568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4217/6150/files/73549554237.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1095/files/fusionner_des_fichiers_en_un_seul_en_ligne.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0335/5034/files/berikafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1905/7822/files/2926190562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3011/7542/files/california_common_core_standards.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7990/1096/files/turexumolojozatosuwiwobil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0452/5720/files/74397299734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0926/9156/files/tekefa.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_off0000b660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB660 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 39a9e8b25cf1dcd15de2d1de623bf060f6fe8b6c94f4d582537c00aa39f3d9a1
font_01_sfnt_off0000c8bf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC8BF 12788 bytes
SHA-256: fe852cad8ea8788710f92288583019b5eda0115eae063bae3232680881d90182
font_02_sfnt_off0000f173.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF173 8712 bytes
SHA-256: 7878d9f1ac65c1877d87600920c4f78ac478ef4bb7ef2a84830e7f19ebd63375