Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07988c459b36586e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 03:20:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 202abd967e493d6e59dbe0db84f1676d SHA-1: 33ee1828595711dee7078518898e4e4dcb5fdcc1 SHA-256: 07988c459b36586e676f4c1945af00e64b0b21503d73e2605307142d3c54992d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to an SEO redirector, which is a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious. While the document body is heavily obfuscated, the presence of multiple external links and the ML classifier's high confidence score indicate a malicious intent to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bellman+ford+routing+algorithm+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vitodorazio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606642/sozetok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thecuriouscatgiftshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681596/puwakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heritagecouncil.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696483/savamumatuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.huettlvisuals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438069/bapopejavedi.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/1/0431/3461/5719/files/bakizoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8271/8107/files/fajiviveduwavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6835/7796/files/tolokufosazase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/96235765932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8362/0767/files/45256340626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3113/3340/files/74838094212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/gemimuxori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3152/6557/files/zaniluza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5507/0880/files/gidepubivutuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8127/4278/files/word_press_ajax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5310/4790/files/jujasamazosugakojozol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4571/6129/files/88530406186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3850/7169/files/4chan_webm_size_limit.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007b67.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B67 5912 bytes
SHA-256: bb0f3e2dd330bc4c1fdf6a57c09b4b8ed7b722fb7bf8520b8c2b18ffe0bf30f0
font_01_sfnt_off00008fb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FB9 5324 bytes
SHA-256: a696c30bf8f449b0d31c9fc5de5ccfb66c066786ef7feb6bc12be886ecd7cdf7
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1AB 11436 bytes
SHA-256: c91f3d9c2ecf2caf51822c45d229c7b5476607f0263a84c3e4f01aa295a1b5c6
font_03_sfnt_off0000c68f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC68F 16172 bytes
SHA-256: 67cb0e1a92e3c2e769412e1d7bd55252ffaccc5ac3e10b279655dc28e07d1a81