Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04d111308f78813e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-09-19 12:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ec1f02ed0c1bb7e644b688e2143642e1 SHA-1: 981000f077aed9bc1dbd1356f368796f741c8e02 SHA-256: 04d111308f78813edc47b0c9d2ff649168fc780005f948952892336796cabed2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirectors and SEO link farms, indicating a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are also present in the heuristics, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.club/wix?keyword=graphing+piecewise+functions+worksheet+algebra+2 In PDF document text
    • http://files.tayahanson.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163953/nuvokufube_wixikenag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vemaxabim.parohia-kassel.de/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438397/kuwimawolusutuv_zenagevok_zubolofujofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jewaruk.readingtolearnsouthafrica.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437092/gukumefisatu-dorir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zusazok.ausysaddles.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969018/tepezugosasituduri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.doncasterchoralsociety.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871414/03d3f7.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/1/0432/2151/6449/files/polexevazile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7300/2902/files/bladder_training_with_foley.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6053/files/32474786477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8150/4670/files/92363423934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbcec4de-b883-46d7-ad9f-b0a62847ccae.filesusr.com/ugd/b1dabf_c26c4fc701174466aed53064dafeb428.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c7b431ce-8cfe-4e8f-8f3a-0e75883650ca.filesusr.com/ugd/efb3f0_4e13fef8fbd74d6c93279531c5119d84.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee87493f-4587-4948-80d9-06c8183028da.filesusr.com/ugd/8e66a5_3175097a0ac8472b8cf672bad9269d82.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://eff84653-f901-4192-bbec-e374a24c91f9.filesusr.com/ugd/724bd4_abb9e80310dd4cf18e2417bff566eae9.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39427c11-bd3d-4eed-ae9c-92fec0b6fa91.filesusr.com/ugd/43d2fc_0fd8264decfa49fb98294db2c23822eb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0f97e63a-4e48-41ea-a02a-e3f2e0c84285.filesusr.com/ugd/a6e5e9_1f1fc9e12ccc44adaffedeb2e6baa387.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d51b215f-117b-4824-bc2c-e00e697574f2.filesusr.com/ugd/21b4a7_dd5edaf102df4e7ba1b365def784aad2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e91b8e3a-fb82-4db3-9739-40094bad59b7.filesusr.com/ugd/04e6f9_69eb7d911cfd466eb48e7a195abdf764.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b8b1b886-1d7a-43a1-8aa3-c9430574bb52.filesusr.com/ugd/0c8cc8_4169dc403be944b2a0062e88b4a9adeb.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_off00006453.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6453 5736 bytes
SHA-256: 5260d13c3e1c4926e15d635abd18263fed35c6df0bb04aaded88babe0ef38c0d
font_01_sfnt_off000077f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77F4 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 2f8a2f76a092b82cc62aa8941a9dd8ab27d249a85b2208ac62ba3d07ce600dd0