Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4563eb13d1ac784…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-09-18 04:17:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 624fd30515a97e42d829f6d4e0705ea7 SHA-1: 50a4eefe86c20af38112d72e178821ae939054d8 SHA-256: a4563eb13d1ac784c8947ed78be42aa830202cd35e43b831a0c4af36d333b15c
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'types of chemical reactions webquest answer key' and a URL that matches the malicious redirector. This indicates a social engineering lure to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The PDF also contains a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=types+of+chemical+reactions+webquest+answer+key In PDF document text
    • http://zivapezas.theriftny.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407178/8374232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gavason.jh-porcelain.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381787/pagabefejubilewezor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.friederikeluisekelle.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683181/6947924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.polishedspurtackco.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695530/kamoxufifovij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somateke.drmelissacordero.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739024/9372686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.asapartcentre.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969735/furunolelob-dakalajipuwel-mebufomasufol-reluk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redabit.thetriptheater.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408984/7f04a52a1.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/1/0433/7506/7297/files/aha_bls_questions_and_answers_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1624/1831/files/bokuvidabefuwisipiletu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://0bacdd8f-b0d8-4d6a-a2d3-a79cb025f890.filesusr.com/ugd/89c6ad_aa525468fb4f488c96c0264ea4db0fd4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0271539a-8c4f-49ba-bb93-eb446802c771.filesusr.com/ugd/4bb894_092e56dbc23b469e8a5a2f2edf3fb246.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://36ba66f7-5dba-43b6-8197-ba1bf37b65a2.filesusr.com/ugd/4e977a_ff5b36f7f7a04bb88d556c3fee4e8953.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7cf8ac05-3ebf-4dc1-9e6f-43150784079e.filesusr.com/ugd/a43ec6_f82b1bcb1c1e4e35b845be2d254d949f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0ad33f1d-d02c-4aef-aece-ca19206bbf19.filesusr.com/ugd/e42c35_21d5753a80504d46b6b83d666a6fee5f.pdf?index=trueIn 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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000676a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x676A 5728 bytes
SHA-256: 4f4f087edb1d168039a3d007f4ff055f6110e8fd06fc69a5d1b1e5f9e235b60d
font_01_sfnt_off00007ad9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AD9 10308 bytes
SHA-256: b862d07ee42f0f3a42597de88b0940f8631bc5213a8637365ea0d2b3fae07e96