Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe7966ddaa8c89a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-15 13:30:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1a79701e72f006bd0d34c830e7ffdf84 SHA-1: f8b8fa48fda0d9ef28c660a1c0e3d5ec25cd5466 SHA-256: fe7966ddaa8c89a8185b9e2ed1ac30cb2fc90c6d478411c27057a2f3c9667ca3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign educational resources hosted on Shopify. However, one critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body also contains a call-to-action phrase, suggesting a lure to trick the user into clicking the malicious link, which then likely leads to further malicious content or malware download.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=common%20noun%20worksheet%20for%20class%205 In PDF document text
    • http://silikewad.daddysmoneymarketgoats.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/lenimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.schsculinaryarts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406473/nezil_kogekekuxu_senupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jixagimet.aksimsurgical.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/jorofepobilu-sipabuzuj.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/1/0434/2779/1009/files/ccna_voice_course_outline.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0842/5123/files/kejonaravafezupedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8098/1403/files/adjektiv_svenska.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/8466/3208/files/34011263295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6090/1528/files/17450327017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2690/6264/files/pearson_essentials_of_human_anatomy_and_physiology_11th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/tipos_de_cancer_pulmonar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3532/8663/files/wuwamoxujimutukenijadubaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1728/0408/files/rojufogodepujudexixuvo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3162/5882/files/4960450398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3649/1431/files/tekosugikidozezipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/0373/4184/files/otite_sereuse_traitement.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_off00005938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5938 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 4569eeecacd3089360be47f00684630ff47ff59e98e2de14393200c62a0cec47
font_01_sfnt_off00006b32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B32 10036 bytes
SHA-256: d72380b1f5371a3643430a3b83b535ef14e69ee927e521ad40b0aba7f58b1353

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