Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 080b57c06404bd5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:50:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: afe2ce2ba8bb007b44957d0710930309 SHA-1: 120ce03af05724634263b77d3e6acaae280dd876 SHA-256: 080b57c06404bd5a6875bf9989bea1b82e5745ce8e49aad297f786bac6b718f4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm designed to attract users with lures like 'free download'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links suggests an attempt to lead users to malicious sites or download further payloads.

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/wb?keyword=wais%20iv%20manual%20de%20aplicacion%20y%20correccion In PDF document text
    • http://files.itfcwomen.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682570/b6487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oldefurrowfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408204/godaxefapu-bekaxixilog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lozijag.flyawaykate.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710703/246739.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://farewuti.sarahssweetwaffles.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874104/kukobaw-xefezokoniv-lurukajejimas-jesukojekew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://valonis.hopecounselingpetaluma.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969776/9648069.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/1/0435/2717/6344/files/hallelujah_piano_sheet_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5945/3845/files/how_to_craft_eye_of_ender.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9515/3058/files/32528939148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1394/7041/files/tilawulavejuda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8154/7428/files/public_finance_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2692/2146/files/sugibinanotal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7951/4777/files/takogagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5189/2381/files/69891455127.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4071/9516/files/jozuzuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5235/8049/files/ulaby_fundamentals_of_applied_electromagnetics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0719/files/84849437469.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5987/9834/files/100_common_english_phrases_and_sentence_patterns_with_dialogue.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_off00004ab1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AB1 5396 bytes
SHA-256: f3a38a4abb380f0b0f47386f4c2423d3f8bf56600077c1f205aa214a9f979e9c
font_01_sfnt_off00005cfa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CFA 9848 bytes
SHA-256: 090fc92227ab39fac903fbd6ec11f7dd565e5dde996c94f6d3f693bc862f1120