Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ad3c2286999d72a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.6 KB Created: 2020-11-26 03:40:54 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-07-20
MD5: 6a1c33d14d45231af8f54d4681843f0e SHA-1: fb2be908fe86ddf2ee367a1117c48e52891325a2 SHA-256: 9ad3c2286999d72a041f457e7476da3d32f91843506a25388de44cfa6b08a14b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. It contains a link disguised as registration information for a baseball training program, which redirects to known malicious infrastructure. The embedded URLs and the document body suggest a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • 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.
  • 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://cctraff.ru/strik?utm_term=eden+prairie+high+school+baseball In PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xafaxotaful/riverguard_keep_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4424696/normal_5faf8e0622a97.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4382406/normal_5fab6682e0aad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://temonobulap.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134592988/midenenevat-fireludepoja-biturinej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4420910/normal_5fa1ee173ae0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474471/normal_5fad42dde7801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fosagobomap/36580873728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4449774/normal_5fb5a2d17115c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000bb5a.bin)
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000bb5a.bin)
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1ea20b45-e7e8-4c4d-9313-886cce1de1cf/gowigasukogosuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/feea5c6a-087d-4167-8def-9d52e12db929/telilotikigukivigije.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/ba73c8a9-8dca-487e-a151-c308036d02bd/83731081869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/2c7fd801-f52e-498e-9dc1-f3484eb8b1f9/73248216026.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 extracted file (font_00_sfnt_off0000bb5a.bin)

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bb5a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB5A 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 991f69795daf44753d6319e10095745d7fc83c53419f2eed15c6af2c012702ce
font_01_sfnt_off0000cdc8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCDC8 10528 bytes
SHA-256: 136608af3b0c8070c942b66abd029c561d094fe49db4db98b2ec15e5275d220f