Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d52928f56661c881…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 17:42:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b841bdf66184b96c09dacc866e53400c SHA-1: bd00b7886d392ea6c08320c2c189e03d1f42e635 SHA-256: d52928f56661c881250e814a5870b2222989a006231bbe4b0eff1f06d0b20d69
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed to obscure malicious destinations. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=passive+voice+simple+present+worksheet+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'passive voice simple present worksheet pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. 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=passive+voice+simple+present+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vukiw.uaphialphadelta.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636725/malorirumadaloj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.khasy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740249/2393383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.frostbottomstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383318/xuxuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whiskeybenttradingco.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398406/fokolaxogesemip_wupoguvi_malimekojoxesa_zanamabujej.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/46391305542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1514/2551/files/mpc_software_2._0_crack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8475/0743/files/kiran_prakashan_synonyms_and_antonyms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6310/0070/files/43750158756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3412/3160/files/mixenolosojulatugegifexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6112/5013/files/algebraic_expression_worksheets_8th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1498/7674/files/dujawasupuzegetubelej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/86618648987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8273/5006/files/ragijutewamexojom.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_off0000438d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x438D 5612 bytes
SHA-256: 9d9a8bad3f442a4ff2ba1d7364bed2e30f041e56eca4b58fc9dba91c8ae9dd25
font_01_sfnt_off00005686.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5686 9548 bytes
SHA-256: 1b60b914b055f95d2da847a09cd0ae981543d069ac9990030045478971965638

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