Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af2662f1bb108931…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-11-07 22:47:32 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 3255fbea94a845c9d35588ddcd039ad8 SHA-1: 130fa2048e82437c39c73c0e2f97d08d73c0b5cb SHA-256: af2662f1bb1089310584f8e9fc8eafd359dfe325fca336499c5159024400818e
124 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded URLs that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://traffking.ru/123?keyword=chemfiesta+worksheet+answers'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to worksheet answers and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • 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 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://traffking.ru/123?keyword=chemfiesta+worksheet+answers In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4411694/normal_5f93a23c84eb7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tevumusavobe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/1/134108657/8439778e0f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jukafubu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874261/nodelorofe_ritizolomireku_gavefava_jafilovolideke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nepajomawowezuw.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134462508/nopezolowajab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://naxedomabaxa.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606472/66f9947149ff2d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kokubexajaluk.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681668/37bb5f20f3d8614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fexaramexi.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134642664/7998228.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4379362/normal_5f8c0976c6775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/gedesisumi/timonaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/wofaxil/healthcare_training_institute_joliet_il.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/pazerogasarinu/low_back_pain_relief.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/fejenijovekozu/30258783715.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B90 5036 bytes
SHA-256: c7c0fa0a426c0e33908f8964d3baf19484031a3aafd6190fdc821b604a9448b0
font_01_sfnt_off00006c90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C90 10288 bytes
SHA-256: fb4795307b53f23789c03b982262c72e6915c1b5c5a7a88f4d4ea08b4a973958