Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 05ff50465edd2875…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 16:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 013c27de94628e4c7db8d822358bd598 SHA-1: 7eb172c37fe2ae7ad905742917363890090af253 SHA-256: 05ff50465edd2875dacf424a642053628b8681c5b251d7d9d4f5e87e3303ebe7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'The silk road book pdf' and a malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking content. The presence of a malicious redirector link indicates an attempt to lead the user to a compromised or malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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.ru/pify?keyword=the+silk+road+book+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thebsquadproject.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383380/3928268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maplepta.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856330/faraza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.winniethesiu.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815298/395a727cc241b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jorgenlauritzen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453615/nokuvopi-wufolobisevi-zisatozumeritu-samesexujufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.arrivecollegeconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070894/zumabesevem_japuza_tikiminuditeg_janiderizu.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/1/0431/1249/7313/files/29836155619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1229/5589/files/40827871844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/21433785098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0669/5320/files/69055274676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0655/7347/files/seattle_dmv_hours.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2257/1930/files/tidezinixo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3492/6495/files/siput.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6290/files/64244031142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6355/8815/files/essential_calculus_early_transcendentals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/nulosamekifamozapavamoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6472/9512/files/tumifulupafuwizevitof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5314/5495/files/15131796769.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9100/0472/files/transient_student_ucf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4686/9911/files/javascript_keycode_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5942/1092/files/72075130319.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_off00007e7f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E7F 5284 bytes
SHA-256: bd7dead073c3c86dbe86f6deac04b9ad46619b4933cd6192b9a1ffb3e3e7993c
font_01_sfnt_off00009065.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9065 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 300f0ec6afda7a526b1ae90d5f7771114e083634c9dcc6718ddea71f96604e42