Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0dd1318415b7fcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 08:59:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7fbaaab3f470a84249ec66064052d9c0 SHA-1: e577cdc82b55f12b2cd014c39f9742224d72d490 SHA-256: a0dd1318415b7fcdd2139ec33d8fc0adab6b60b8c7052e8e6b59e10a39595c7d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a syllabus, which is a common lure for phishing or malware distribution. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bpt+2nd+year+syllabus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.amaysingsvgs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874257/1044387.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://purar.stalbridgelibrary.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606758/6706833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.perspectate.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070493/502fa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.treathairandbeauty.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303238/6441714.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/1/0432/8095/7593/files/katofiketibo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9181/2767/files/39264815198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5925/6232/files/19547292604.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2127/9138/files/bazowuwoxetava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8723/2166/files/53286016660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3264/files/13650528759.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4904/9499/files/67796109981.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5725/8402/files/83057426028.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/pilixubeweregasulevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4460/9943/files/jajube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tagesagebog.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007bbe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BBE 5460 bytes
SHA-256: f1f70744fcb69915345a5ab2046fad5268e8c80a285e01e73913f0343009de92
font_01_sfnt_off00008e60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E60 4432 bytes
SHA-256: c2e3e9774d016a1aafd5c965c49d533237c4529f0757e22401f8dc8f2b090ce0
font_02_sfnt_off00009e7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E7B 2320 bytes
SHA-256: 026de1076dad6614fee7b4839f066e743e4238b5ddea94259138cfcd618330b4
font_03_sfnt_off0000a8cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8CD 14540 bytes
SHA-256: da1ea2882a1c638e7ec5eae28027b1e9f2b7ffbc2e55d38db5b85ec01416dd16
font_04_sfnt_off0000d5e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5E4 16224 bytes
SHA-256: 7a7e0f9cb89785dee93ecfbcc78ef93b5a18a5022886c2d5a0bf15d9412c15a0