Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b60989d07586fb25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:58:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 069b17ca12fa942d1a6f06364d922e16 SHA-1: 748adcca008f97e7e4bd99544a2b537422f3b73d SHA-256: b60989d07586fb25ffa3b5072c3b6ddc40ef1b30eabff283c4417a1dc7305165
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, including a primary redirector URL that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'advanced grammar in use apk' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure for a fake application download. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=advanced+grammar+in+use+apk+%25D8%25AF%25D8%25A7%25D9%2586%25D9%2584%25D9%2588%25D8%25AF In PDF document text
    • http://files.unionsforscottishlabour.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406985/junajupuxasomikavax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gregorywsaxton.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710627/kutewosujimuriwatado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tutok.pembinaparish.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871864/gibokuvodifom-buvikevumuza-lububupafevo-viwur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gafav.oasweet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775810/6561975.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/1/0462/0894/2233/files/1947549897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2089/3851/files/53811829570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9721/0532/files/89825502222.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/libutufisolefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5539/8563/files/applications_of_actinides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5935/4517/files/am_i_evil_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3731/9590/files/10569252077.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_off00005a39.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A39 5476 bytes
SHA-256: b2043ccd27f5dfab5b29b78226c060096529527b43c500d66d78b616713111d4
font_01_sfnt_off00006cbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CBF 1796 bytes
SHA-256: c9c850e9c351ce199d5e9d1c42a783cd39d33267a74ccb43d8a2fed304f07254
font_02_sfnt_off0000754b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754B 16496 bytes
SHA-256: efa2e89c4cf8191efc31b2299568b077d15758911c952d3e1e78735181d1d807
font_03_sfnt_off00008bfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BFB 10396 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa28fb3f1337cd8ca289a3f672511c474a10e78fb42386c3734421f1fda1582
font_04_sfnt_off0000afc9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFC9 18160 bytes
SHA-256: 1979793f07fd4a37dea708dad72d2e44f2917eeec329dec67d1f215a7089f22b