Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e6632cda0d94cef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 03:21:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5dcb7c0b1827ffdc2974c7308a218cca SHA-1: b54e53b877da13ec866c227df3a7b373c25771f7 SHA-256: 9e6632cda0d94cef96e4c978ff18cc3e36a4c1e9f7f42d30368ede4725a87585
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=manorama%20calendar%20june%202018%20pdf`. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic indicates the document is designed to host numerous external PDF links, many of which are to benign Shopify domains but some point to unknown domains. The presence of a 'Visible LOLBin command execution instruction' heuristic suggests the document may attempt to execute commands, likely to facilitate the download and execution of a second-stage payload from the malicious URL. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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.cc/wb?keyword=manorama%20calendar%20june%202018%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kmajda.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606331/rofetamiwekokove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.firstlutheranricelake.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695432/fakibakituxodag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goodshepherdinoshkosh.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069781/mavuxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gyanheilyoga.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681460/c8d110b43.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spacegianthelmets.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164295/majapanifunomed_zurexusawot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5526/5445/files/vubud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1181/3015/files/27084751687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1324/2005/files/catholic_liturgical_calendar_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5149/8142/files/bahara_song_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4277/4935/files/sawedor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/topoxegujowowadubunonotex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0555/8436/files/29114257767.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9755/4084/files/powershell_function_parameters.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8489/0790/files/sawozez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6150/2362/files/nfl_week_1_schedule_spreadsheet.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5981/2254/files/82328233401.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/sIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000054b2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54B2 5724 bytes
SHA-256: 0a57258d68602470fe57c7bb300e897b88f0ea42a2b1c05c2633c165c16d3a73
font_01_sfnt_off00006813.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6813 6036 bytes
SHA-256: 2920901f9602edad311530cdc6896fb8db6a20d599171dd65d9b6376457098ca
font_02_sfnt_off00007d83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D83 9888 bytes
SHA-256: f60fb6bbbef194adc3b48931377fb4926f0ed633c7ff9950fe9c3a52cee7dee4
font_03_sfnt_off00009f94.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F94 16068 bytes
SHA-256: f9bcc7848fa1dd2c29eaa5f628cab9cfef40a5ca191136fcbecaef6133835651