Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07f75a1191c56206…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:58:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4190ef1f080a79da3226c5d033a14dc1 SHA-1: 80c9d406c1906f9867d6decb213483a95d9e64fd SHA-256: 07f75a1191c562065626bd394d8e0ff52c4bfb1f16d9f947242db3a75bed4a5a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for medical information, specifically 'brandt daroff exercises for bppv pdf'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirectors and the nature of the embedded links indicate a high likelihood of a phishing attack.

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.com/pify?keyword=brandt+daroff+exercises+for+bppv+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mettertigercheer.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164473/xoduvur-bezilakejo-zudike-tutiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinados.musicaextrema.nl/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/4509081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hwolfenson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407435/48d06fb.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/1/0428/4219/4083/files/fadamopafejofafadumu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1501/8392/files/torawomudasolasudedewej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0727/0312/files/43703131712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0963/8553/files/orao_so_miguel_arcanjo_21_dias.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1996/8417/files/rinatetitegifatibevos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9163/8934/files/white_collar_season_6_torrent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/5578033559.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5150/7094/files/13762928072.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5372/7394/files/nano_sim_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5056/4773/files/dnd_5e_player_s_handbook_color.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5608/6696/files/tifizugo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2035/2677/files/sap_bpc_training.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_off00006750.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6750 5436 bytes
SHA-256: 5cc759f7adaea50097282f636ce40e8f6426531f1471336a760dcec6697c7c70
font_01_sfnt_off000079e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79E5 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 6d75416693d2272ab4cdd41ea82213dbda87653acc14328ec75000f3c70d7d46