Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b3b7e3d3397a9e6d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-09-18 12:06:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fdf202926faadde8a474e29ca9a0517b SHA-1: c1f70f5cf464961df9c31be0e75e3b49660c538e SHA-256: b3b7e3d3397a9e6d584a8814aeba862bc03053871cb50307ca96a324d8e11672
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to a URL that is disguised as a study guide preparation resource. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to a potentially harmful site.

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.
  • 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=comprehensive+respiratory+therapy+exam+preparation+guide+3rd+edition+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://nabom.autisminthewild.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969904/83e35b08e9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ambcircleoffriends.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606396/wojulixomu_jovizanarizi_riladujuza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creekdontriseband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409200/gomozewop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sajulo.trlegacypartnership.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/0d5b19c157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mdcsmith.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406352/17cf3c23a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1556/1638/files/91989569385.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13578549785.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/5008/9878/files/zutenimemuvefebonomege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5029/4687/files/windows_defender_wont_turn_off_real_time_protection.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://5bd10c3e-34ad-4b4e-878f-546a999a2273.filesusr.com/ugd/35c6e2_b7b69ffcc8a94119a2c5babc8e19660e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c8124c39-6af2-4224-aa4f-87e6aa28a6c9.filesusr.com/ugd/41f880_3c7351857a6a47388c06246de1682923.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://88bbc9c8-97e9-4e08-a442-11b87884a4f6.filesusr.com/ugd/3ed902_7347acb559de486e88c0ba91e00d895d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://55d101a5-bafc-45dc-be21-834fa36ac9cd.filesusr.com/ugd/430cb2_81daf314d36643b2bc3e7e017e2452d7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://35ba0f43-aef1-4363-b9e0-3865f1707acc.filesusr.com/ugd/17ce20_725bbb68badc45dda4fa7ce2524c8a0d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99623345-4880-4b48-8ee4-851bdc0910fb.filesusr.com/ugd/dba42a_459f54d1e78c42f492e32b671ed57805.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005945.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5945 5724 bytes
SHA-256: 645f94f2fddae881fa6ce25eb856eff8d911e4745efaaeb38fd4c934fb7b47b8
font_01_sfnt_off00006cae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CAE 10332 bytes
SHA-256: 2f24dc556d27672a7130b85ba441e09e2fe1cc6448ca0e24953a68a8ac879cbe
font_02_sfnt_off00008fd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FD1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2