Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4f2633ac4fe0dab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.8 KB Created: 2020-09-18 08:50:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57f9bdc4bd1a40895af731ba1b1995c4 SHA-1: e5d0988921d4484782cc5df934095f06af767cf2 SHA-256: c4f2633ac4fe0dab2c6d1fff3858017d00ae55af1d10b38f61dedaaa3f40b347
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to known malicious redirectors or link farms. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic worksheets and includes a prominent malicious URL. This suggests a social engineering attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or malware delivery.

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.me/wix?keyword=chapter+17+section+2+trade+in+renaissance+europe+worksheet+answers In PDF document text
    • http://files.kcorneliusimagesandmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775363/tojokebamaxujod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bexepus.makealltimetreasures.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740146/pazuwok_nugisiribez_fawowil_kevibogogofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crochetmilie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437005/gogufuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sadujiv.ridgelinefarm.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637279/lurejomugoraje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.speedandsprocket.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407233/pojonesebakusefut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yew360.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482821/jifememi-vavokat-vodapovofobo-soxaferaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amaliejahn.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969717/d9738c3e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fovumus.artisanhandfood.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814591/dulekuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wadubulub.morethanahandyman.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740019/4820869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alaskaexpeditiontours.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969371/3628370.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/1/0440/9766/7224/files/jolimojix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/xazinofiletowan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7881/9735/files/65459495635.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/4293/3657/files/game_design_merit_badge_pamphlet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3882/5887/files/papebuzotusobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8196/5461/files/fufabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6485/3408/files/xonaler.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_off000093b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93B0 5452 bytes
SHA-256: 31e6b0d792065519343e4aebb321a8f45aadda33dffe98ea4e81e3974cfc0f8d
font_01_sfnt_off0000a656.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA656 14576 bytes
SHA-256: ef374abcf3c17bb5b3ff467a0a96234f468cd3d61677dd71157385915040533d
font_02_sfnt_off0000d395.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD395 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3