Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a45052292643362c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:05:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a990c9eeb5969d3260fc7b14f5f099d6 SHA-1: 2191aabcb0cac0a640ee28e2a321192a6dde3eaf SHA-256: a45052292643362ca82870687049fea7b3930f33b494d6cd9b49caedf30c693a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as "Hvac certification test answers". The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this, and the ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL, suggesting the primary goal is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure.

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=hvac+certification+test+answers In PDF document text
    • http://nakigisu.blacqueen-ent.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696323/7989910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hairbyhkt.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776594/vulavimudepikas_sewidaf_xezawuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mpgcamb.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164281/kudipujezoxalazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.purposefulperspective.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398555/monaronivafuzul_wowala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ruxalezur.soullightcollage.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380845/matekiturop_lamixeniz.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/1/0434/1740/3559/files/vovivulefuguwan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4156/8421/files/migedogitutodazevuzekifev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1451/9966/files/tumelagaferuvujew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8106/2805/files/ff14_act_kagerou.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4391/2854/files/48907887099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0212/5733/files/kuweluzazalasoxevas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6980/9564/files/najaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/47910952141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1304/5398/files/you_ll_never_walk_alone_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0821/2638/files/lolalopezujowatufeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/types_of_bioassay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4434/6792/files/72900779259.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008032.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8032 4956 bytes
SHA-256: de7c130901b0bd6fb35157a2c1be4a631edbc6f5b5dfb84e9f648dc8f40d380d
font_01_sfnt_off0000912e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x912E 10200 bytes
SHA-256: 83f92a368bbe7721fe01b92fab953f0cba08e1b87c5551d982fece224c646dcf

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