Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbf6c3756683424c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:31:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b028b94837bb863c4df3ece76dc917c2 SHA-1: 57cc9ff011559098f64d75d00a923945ee85ee8d SHA-256: cbf6c3756683424c798491aaea96ee70f4508a33b8133d011d979086677b61ff
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing a malicious redirector link and a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary malicious URL. This suggests the PDF's purpose is to lure users into clicking the malicious link, which then redirects them to potentially harmful 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=behavioral+game+theory+colin+camerer+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.alexandergalant.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398477/2278538.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drcoachkellipt.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606118/89fb1945b1e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hdndatabase.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/9726254.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/1/0437/7352/6178/files/hansel_and_gretel_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4677/2646/files/jubameta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7234/7550/files/47587130607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4841/6933/files/87929968871.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7795/0870/files/41453772262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/66491839223.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9240/1573/files/adrenergic_and_antiadrenergic_drugs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0835/files/zirolorizavizosutotanuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/94838701381.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7100/3037/files/fatejetivenir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9146/7176/files/behaviourism_and_mentalism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8909/9938/files/20672647019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5055/files/1284926614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/oriflame_catalogue_february_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6201/files/40615031620.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_off00006070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6070 5392 bytes
SHA-256: b667ced5d5a17b1c7798469c26d31f6cda59dacdeb953d9d218d12ac3ed8ff5c
font_01_sfnt_off000072ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72AE 9848 bytes
SHA-256: 412bbf8a9896eb4ee6d288baa2243e9d994f29ec3e52e23e04f9bfdf3179a120
font_02_sfnt_off0000946a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x946A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333