Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f245fc8e8f8cf448…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-01 19:00:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cfee9f54bbc1e7b5e884ab8f4d87ea54 SHA-1: ad6e3604573d04e078163c43a35aee926559d071 SHA-256: f245fc8e8f8cf4483b14d4c54a153cd402bf08c2f0bf176f84ddb55c82b7d212
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links and a document body that mimics a system error message, instructing the user to click a link to resolve a 'bootres.dll corrupt windows 10' issue. This is a social engineering tactic, likely to trick the user into downloading a malicious payload. The primary redirector URL, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bootres.+dll+corrupt+windows+10, is flagged as malicious, supporting the malicious verdict. The PDF also contains a large number of links to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • 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=bootres.+dll+corrupt+windows+10 In PDF document text
    • http://files.synergy-electrical.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382092/1191589.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.brandonarthurshindolcsw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437308/8401160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aelc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775672/lagujumejunesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nancyjocullen.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682441/4745502.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/1/0431/2743/9526/files/sepudikorus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7614/8643/files/matricom_g_pad_ex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0204/3288/files/96692315999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1385/7692/files/wujetenosepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2949/4933/files/67065715507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/68320593197.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9311/5558/files/gowezux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2561/3475/files/semofuxekijinedusad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/40133843423.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/runuwadobona.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/bupuzepikogu.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60AC 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 892f2fc704048fb456762b459e91e73725cd31c95c088d2122753c4d8d64f763
font_01_sfnt_off000072a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A6 10052 bytes
SHA-256: 757ab9037416efa2b46d139afe9cf289f368f1245014e8c0d40f51ad346894ae