Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03d74137944ce6b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:31:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fb53af37b4f7329a5ded9c209e3736f5 SHA-1: a42bdc5112449c01164e951d97cbf98ba847379e SHA-256: 03d74137944ce6b787ae7294fb7666f4cff3fd4617eb0c622a31d33cfc04a645
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The document body mentions "Sony Vegas Pro 16 full free" and includes a URL pointing to a redirector, which is a common lure for distributing pirated software or malware. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site for a "free 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/pify?keyword=sony+vegas+pro+16+full+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.angieemilyjoseph.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969097/42d0f2324fca.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/1/0435/2173/6859/files/xuwimepopodowig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5026/1911/files/gitagenesuforovokukesalug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4381/4560/files/gemuvurasovow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/18067361526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0899/1142/files/vatidisomexirezonusine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6895/6565/files/ejercicios_con_el_abecedario_en_ingles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8447/1710/files/management_des_administrations_publiques_et_territoriales.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1557/7504/files/building_blockchain_projects.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3333/7768/files/fodedoginugami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7197/9172/files/zoziwumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6453/2900/files/revenue_recognition_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3651/5224/files/maretiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6510/5814/files/definisi_dermatitis_atopik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/jejilifugugobe.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_off00005fd8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD8 5540 bytes
SHA-256: 5211446135d3e1c308fe7dc624076864f9f77c40e379632a9a864dd31639d9d0
font_01_sfnt_off000072d3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72D3 13212 bytes
SHA-256: 6a1faa27c5411753c0f2ad8d6eda3a3085167158cfcae0dc3774ee551f4e2b8e