Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01cb15dff2db0665…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.9 KB Created: 2020-07-19 21:55:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cd0df297cba1d942971986f46b7ff819 SHA-1: 1d5c66cdd32196ef5b6d8521c349de89de9564ec SHA-256: 01cb15dff2db0665ae4919f927ac85166de296c55c3fc076d5cb18f565b8a817
204 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating it is part of an SEO link farm and uses a redirector to a malicious domain. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of embedded URLs and the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic suggest a phishing or scam attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://files.australiandisabilitysport.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874691/sefuv.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.musee-militaire.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070317/551221.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tomorrowstechnologytoday.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775565/fididiwegaf-xadekinari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=hematoxylin%20and%20eosin%20PDF link annotation
    • https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=hematoxylin%20and%20eosin%20(h&eIn 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/1/0432/3105/1931/files/49676143586.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/65557249536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0334/7097/files/kilus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://remumalu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zatulefogemejoxulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kemofef.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tuvumalukoxar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://limalido.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/bakopomaralirin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dejatixid.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/jitaxokorosatoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://zegopaduxuf347937540.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/daziburunemowikagopupifom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1379/9066/files/98364429896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6519/6197/files/51840140609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58933331969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2960/2205/files/tibid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4290/6007/files/pagaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zebegevuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6065/8330/files/34734303619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9866/9220/files/xumesadekas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0423/files/85826377325.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_off0000a21e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA21E 4964 bytes
SHA-256: ab8414b7018ac91fc942e048ba3c8ad2f84aab3e3260dfff2f4ba090cd612f3a
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2E1 10444 bytes
SHA-256: 3cf2cb6ec96dea7d21c91f27dceaea6e5b5f84b599816d0d337302c59bbc5cdf