Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03be3ffe60da4b0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.7 KB Created: 2020-09-20 04:07:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0c79c19e9ec3ce8299fa5e8c4525d385 SHA-1: 1a3f9fd62e962a400fcd6e9b9c084b1d6ef4bf0b SHA-256: 03be3ffe60da4b0c7675e762d70c228daa5cace6ed81901ca7b038681bd0c02d
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure and link farms, indicating a malicious intent to direct users to potentially harmful sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a known malicious redirector URL further supports this assessment. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact nature of the lure beyond link manipulation.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=chip+chan+wikipedia In PDF document text
    • http://dogifam.coorain.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302870/e7ee5884f487ff.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meduxi.15landsdowne.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813030/1599526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jeidanielbiotech.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303118/sugap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://d8859b59-1013-4c27-9010-31bdd5292b7a.filesusr.com/ugd/0789d5_9538bcdd663b4eb88e55a7d9f51bda3a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3d680b6b-1491-406a-8ec3-32f61cbcf66f.filesusr.com/ugd/031dda_c7034d341daa42cd9619260682bae86e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://28bca1c2-d459-440c-b337-b732bc27fdd0.filesusr.com/ugd/8b9728_bc74f00f16f542dd89631f26a76c11bb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3190d259-12f0-4ba2-84ee-621381334e58.filesusr.com/ugd/4bdc6d_3587406227c64786858001d9274044da.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://3f80dedb-d693-42db-b3b1-9ea0dc7fe0ba.filesusr.com/ugd/6f53d7_08970eaef48142fc9cdf0878e0ece817.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://194392b2-80d9-41a8-b6ec-ffa3a216f750.filesusr.com/ugd/704988_8db1b45c40ce44809a85bb50e833ce2a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a3f297b2-c997-4f20-8d6c-c6a3b8b1c22d.filesusr.com/ugd/a838c0_99eb1857b26d42d1b7c9425a042ab4e4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5faf3cf3-c067-444b-95a0-b87d1df67b61.filesusr.com/ugd/eb6612_d9cf6c9a9ea7409f920d71f5b211b4f7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://befca69c-ec79-45b4-8b52-29bb0d70097a.filesusr.com/ugd/10e3af_26161106696544219cb6f48bbe5281ec.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fe0444a0-fd57-44ea-9679-e2a8c637a595.filesusr.com/ugd/daca0d_570be11835ab47f785089ba73022b5a1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d5ecb256-96f6-45e0-813f-453c4781f614.filesusr.com/ugd/cc14e4_51ec740e9fc540f9b6d6da580ea51825.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://29e406c1-8421-42ec-a842-cdfd4c536808.filesusr.com/ugd/ced2dc_7b1e624df63f420da43879ca6781d8b9.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000b092.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB092 4916 bytes
SHA-256: b0c28087f24c3cdc3cc11d5d11f80333060189262155659c2259ab88642993b6
font_01_sfnt_off0000c15e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC15E 11244 bytes
SHA-256: c296408ba992548afd73bd912b5f63d956256f6e764ac1e46e94bd8ca64aaed2