Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c7cc0fd4418fabe4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 13:22:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aebb1914a8c3f66e2e67aaed1d317157 SHA-1: 9d66fe968f1c1ab90e94f70a529fac8d3815b98f SHA-256: c7cc0fd4418fabe4c03b519205814ffd35ad9dd8989452a8a4b3f746e75f512e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a "wjec candidate declaration form". The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.cc/pify?keyword=wjec+candidate+declaration+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.pondwoodwonalancet.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874559/1562528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rmbc.edu/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/6980378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rofejowe.kramersearch.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607919/4382180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://togal.waynecdmi.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695457/6204349.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/1/0430/0803/2922/files/rujutav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3803/1518/files/light_reflection_and_refraction_class_10_numericals_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3170/7294/files/parti_politik_di_malaysia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9861/5451/files/dalobawisenafupelojafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/57650291473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6547/5229/files/tesojusaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2534/0328/files/st_caste_list_in_maharashtra.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9619/3686/files/86753896266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8457/1031/files/wemesirafetupani.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000614f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x614F 5080 bytes
SHA-256: b5c161754a2c53ced27e7c908e4e66d2970997d62c25eff70f0d0294a7f74026
font_01_sfnt_off00007291.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7291 14944 bytes
SHA-256: 88d697c7cad6d02131c2c74912a77f6e857f77edbeffc6910d1bcb93a7cbf6b7

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