Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cef382650f6febb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.6 KB Created: 2020-08-11 18:53:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a369095b66ad784227771f9a881d37dd SHA-1: 4df4bab39772a9aa0b6b73117225ac6835bf4b49 SHA-256: cef382650f6febb47310f412b65338bb1b0378dcf0f3e8e594c4426f1229955c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for educational material. The primary malicious link is https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=soalan%20matematik%20tahun%205%20kertas%202%20pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site.

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/wb?keyword=soalan%20matematik%20tahun%205%20kertas%202%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.anthonybarnesboxing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637254/2133030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pathlightwisdom.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381612/bufodezexuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.barbarabairddesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606198/dcbc55ef09a8da7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cmc-info.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871651/soxomi-jifad-sabote-nirewemiketamo.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/89120948070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1721/3864/files/realismo_filosofia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/takuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8806/8254/files/jerekazixerava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9322/1783/files/xekulekuviguto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9838/3260/files/hamstring_strain_rehab_exercises.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6778/2821/files/96062284038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2009/1555/files/adobe_acrobat_x_pro_reduce_size.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/10588857949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4253/5574/files/dovemovazuvikexifezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8799/5814/files/14342876699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7185/8838/files/3130598377.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7842/6534/files/operating_systems_concepts_9th_edition_solutions.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_off00006d4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4C 3264 bytes
SHA-256: 074876dfcfba2685fb6f9d43f8890ee7c4612f45786ee24176dd36cd9125fad8
font_01_sfnt_off000078fb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78FB 5704 bytes
SHA-256: 43c639ee738013a92181053d44654b2f2cbd68136083bc3cbe019ec349031ea2
font_02_sfnt_off00008c35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C35 10436 bytes
SHA-256: 445e33c039b651ca4a1844ee6aab5181b7ab796e471196fb8dea85de847fb07f
font_03_sfnt_off0000b001.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB001 16092 bytes
SHA-256: 2c5f1a2e3d9f683f6a217a47aeaaae813f7d4ef732a5ff54a929695507d09140