Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c69eac2c4d4b36a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-09-18 07:07:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cf8a086d0c260334aeb2589c7b973b8f SHA-1: a137244628c404d96aa1276ed070c67e960b3320 SHA-256: c69eac2c4d4b36a5d6e7590900c8bc089c6e7f6028cc705e0a32b295c5ced5fa
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to suspicious domains and appear to be part of a link farm. One critical heuristic indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=style+manual+of+the+american+psychological+association In PDF document text
    • http://xuwenu.teahillsfarms.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/9c5d84649956e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shsdrama.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874594/gusegukisejadu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xoduxixix.roma57.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814011/e80884220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bavelo.crowleyfirstumc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739059/65fc132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.medinamoving.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409017/nexibol-fexixufudez-tupuvaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luwotaz.dunaecrenwelge.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482851/6587053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.christyintheclassroom.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398333/vazuko.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/1/0438/0088/7457/files/c_l_full_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1059/2668/files/68713737051.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1597/7630/files/jack_lalanne_power_juicer_express_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://2f0b783d-6da3-432a-b486-2de67eac7695.filesusr.com/ugd/3254bf_ead1ddc4336b4e2fab7091beba393b37.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bacde671-fa54-4ef1-b540-a33f718d24fa.filesusr.com/ugd/b13fd1_33d43a13d56143ee8d59846b1fc0817f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ec4004d5-5926-4ef1-919b-4371ecbda36e.filesusr.com/ugd/6f58fb_82de5e70f23846dd85add06361a05599.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://97536c4c-77f7-4fa2-a25c-087a411fb5b7.filesusr.com/ugd/b81754_10cf512afc42436fbaca9d0a45750ff7.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000701a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x701A 5632 bytes
SHA-256: 092753c234822554960a14654e25f188d365607dea6a3b4d2eece9392fd21d9b
font_01_sfnt_off00008321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8321 10184 bytes
SHA-256: 551c2a56b547d6250a573cbaf90447187a8b6ed17f3c6543fe100431eae4135d