Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0035e94e5782a06c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 03:58:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2add9421687f52a3da1c372ad496c533 SHA-1: a1132d044a51e588659626c66ffee854d323bd88 SHA-256: 0035e94e5782a06c0dba335e5e01a5626dde27122ca73dc445c3b567c1e0beb4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to a redirector service, which is a common tactic for SEO poisoning and phishing lures. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a redirector, suggesting the intent is to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The presence of many external PDF links further supports the SEO link farm heuristic.

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.com/pify?keyword=soil+profile+and+soil+horizon+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.justkiddingtheatrecompanyinc.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606546/8ca666d4850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juzix.oachristchurch.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/146621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.just-verandas.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379045/xobuxisedujus_wekabod.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/1/0431/7180/7391/files/xowigerigewavalabuwak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2013/9170/files/nenegevoboxajadejidisumij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38655606666.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4899/2919/files/35095886532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0182/9797/files/sijejosabofifo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8589/3542/files/53776141809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6513/0660/files/xazalagatuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8585/6919/files/rubanuliwawilaxesulabaro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6961/1932/files/79207283006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5492/3925/files/antietam_battlefield_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wogol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7133/1734/files/junekexedazo.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_off00005fb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB5 5280 bytes
SHA-256: d0d6e1a895f4b8928d5402edb7e1b8084810ed32fef6d429bbeecec1f57614b3
font_01_sfnt_off000071a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71A2 10148 bytes
SHA-256: a8a1d3134b61add7d5d31b9ab0d6ac995910db3d3f24e01d58ad274c1bf9e292