Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b6fbb8d08495c5f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-15 09:51:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3bcc836842c4514939d06eb004c88a79 SHA-1: 53399b86ad0df04e77d00e59495ff538362273d1 SHA-256: b6fbb8d08495c5f3320e14d4ec74a4dd729abfedac8c3ea76fa2fd4917b72ea7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=chemistry%20experiments%20for%20life%20science%20majors%204th%20edition%20pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure users to this malicious domain. The presence of many external PDF links further supports the SEO poisoning attack pattern.

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.com/wb?keyword=chemistry%20experiments%20for%20life%20science%20majors%204th%20edition%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rhetoricsoup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738939/xaximulevuwedex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bowvalleyfreestyle.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740221/e9dbfb9ccbfb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rockymountainflydesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856433/rewojedifosof-mabononipikajin-nolevodab-zuredi.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/1/0430/0079/1191/files/autoplay_menu_builder_templates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61051106257.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6872/7194/files/nuvazalokuxijedumitokesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3590/1602/files/fangirl_full_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8165/4679/files/acidosis_metabolica_refractaria_a_tratamiento.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9562/1781/files/14837747727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0985/8984/files/25865165259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8299/8170/files/dusulinefotodanel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2057/3080/files/crib_sheet_sets_target.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1740/4573/files/kufavepizeduvuvus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5448/7969/files/93_nissan_centra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5318/7221/files/.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A77 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 6516298b89ae61827a071b3305509e6d4fb4b0ece275e3a5134d9c24ea83171f
font_01_sfnt_off00006d3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D3C 10520 bytes
SHA-256: 1dfe0e2f316454c8dbe4d3b8b8e77d5d23306a23873474805e6b050e87bfde5b
font_02_sfnt_off000090f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90F7 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 781b9fae2fb9201b4a05d2041fea553bb2973f1d011ab9c51e3326c72e342c60