Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca9640e5150f99c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 18:33:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3e3e1d7109674fcc689856fc1d5cb444 SHA-1: 4cbd86769dfc2a97995018b4613d43bd20d9fa0b SHA-256: ca9640e5150f99c4faacddda3177a42eb3479cffde6d4d44a987825ee581c7e9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure, disguised as educational content. This indicates a social engineering attack aiming to redirect users to malicious sites.

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.ru/wb?keyword=all%20formulas%20of%20current%20electricity%20class%2012%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://peteguku.tnetech.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164278/gaxizase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.samhoughtonchallenge.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776817/betine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parkerconverse.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379280/bd9bb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tristaricelandics.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813416/675674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2174/6847/files/loragixadekefutag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8823/0053/files/rezitewikiwupebop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/protected_area_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5045/1623/files/corazon_de_nio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9550/7622/files/vodegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1320/9246/files/30562709357.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/3564/4319/files/data_center_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/zudoramupugofimip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0004/5465/files/77560907085.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000079b7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79B7 5576 bytes
SHA-256: bf37f1992bb25240894051f49fb223724403f601502d3ee27510516e756f156b
font_01_sfnt_off00008ca1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CA1 10752 bytes
SHA-256: a88dc0b4de2c9ee3c630125ea67d8ce93df3fd08aafb518658ee2bddeb349435
font_02_sfnt_off0000b10c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB10C 16192 bytes
SHA-256: 2fbb528c30fae61c70ff4082faa5fece981988df10abad1a91cab371b780b9de
font_03_sfnt_off0000c674.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC674 4048 bytes
SHA-256: c6b59e4a8815360c71291c00df27e53daae0eb8d3a5cb98a1e9f2657902e5332