Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbb94119e87d9f02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 04:41:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 37867b69bcfcd7be581fcffa5ac1f083 SHA-1: ebad06b89c865b22f75585e7f3ec523d01ee59d4 SHA-256: cbb94119e87d9f0211caa7b9135f2d72c09adfeaf8c309b6b4d6d5086d29725f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which are hosted on SEO-optimized domains and redirect through a known malicious redirector. The primary lure appears to be 'bluej programs pdf download', suggesting a phishing attempt to trick users into downloading malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of a redirector URL confirms a malicious intent to lead users to harmful content.

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=bluej+programs+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://wobeze.imaginebetter.shop/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/9ab66e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.keithreganofficial.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739978/baa73dff02db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theaffairseries.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969057/076e61ac4cbcff5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nhsoulstudies.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856330/6672686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lilyenvironmental.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483386/lefasodimur-tidanag-vorokarelivavu-jejakewiki.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/1/0429/8794/6133/files/27430378281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2197/6220/files/8403972655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0341/2633/files/precalculus_with_limits_a_graphing_approach_3rd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4024/9755/files/cracking_the_pm_interview_github.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2530/0647/files/jafuvujetifimobofafav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1816/5146/files/fool_on_the_hill_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5759/1960/files/xekokozifowegorasudamufiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/65035647553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7519/0430/files/livro_palavras_cruzadas_coquetel_para_imprimir_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6680/9765/files/soda_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2418/7555/files/ainsi_va_la_vie_de_femi_osofisan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7983/5547/files/4855786189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5219/6249/files/34632150222.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_off000070eb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70EB 5576 bytes
SHA-256: 462bebf1b824b5ec192bee62a515e2dcc950e1a7112b5761fba35e4923b0be24
font_01_sfnt_off000083e9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83E9 10376 bytes
SHA-256: e56684d9b85fd32c61aba1b58aa0435cddb7676a2489c23b38ed6f8eb06fb831