Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f7c9769fdd37c97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:55:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 491facf95ef4efabb39faad42de33264 SHA-1: 0bfd2cb5026cc8c6c1a734e87af7785bc5dacc4b SHA-256: 9f7c9769fdd37c978d123e3df44a34eefbe12007e5de6968f70e8ce3ff102b18
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Bodmas questions for class 4 pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of a malicious redirector link and a link farm, indicating a phishing or scam attempt.

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=bodmas+questions+for+class+4+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.anchoredstudents.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695280/wefiwojezuxanakef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.omrocommunity.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969984/9320874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.idstatement.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740517/a8e52386532d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sportmshenservice.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738993/tevibaxabe_fagas_dimola_walomanego.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/1/0430/2402/3715/files/57218061464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4629/files/26321663457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4154/4600/files/69405668531.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7229/8918/files/6010087901.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3287/7975/files/blank_resume_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/10856246283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0894/9402/files/tukosodik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5192/6183/files/2049955533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7729/5516/files/fahrenheit_451_ray_bradbury.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5240/8742/files/17621123609.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F4D 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 6bb2ebe4736105df0a07ee670057bf948b791da8e51774b9a098e89a74366a05
font_01_sfnt_off00007226.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7226 10276 bytes
SHA-256: f9648f5c834d2123ace616faf64cc91bd0305027d46338607dc45f141c256b3d
font_02_sfnt_off00009583.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9583 16088 bytes
SHA-256: 3c1c7bd747a9a8f6e1c531457064e9378d9a893e5271ac7381d9d0015290d8f4