Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0f1dc95bdcc99a87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 12:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c764de8e44310a07573099c3b5e65d17 SHA-1: cbd9ad35e45250c000c2c5d19873bccc1ef92389 SHA-256: 0f1dc95bdcc99a87d2583f4b0bedf4a8cef60622e019f5cd210afa2bcf80b3b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector URL associated with SEO link farms and phishing lures. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links suggests an attempt to funnel users to malicious content, likely for credential harvesting or malware distribution. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains a reference to the redirector URL.

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=human%20anatomy%20and%20physiology%20lab%20manual%20cat%20version In PDF document text
    • http://files.viriyachot.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437457/2449394.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sogawav.notestotheunderground.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437812/rulid-jivosibogulanez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.greenhopefinearts.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775647/rutogafilekujar_gagogigopoda_kaxipo_welinozeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caitlintrude.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636890/vesifakisu_dolitoxotujunun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.getbrandywinevalleybread.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636792/3868589.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/1/0432/7623/9014/files/fetiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5636/4709/files/steam_find_friends.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1771/4334/files/emotional_intelligence_daniel_goleman_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7583/6840/files/63559350259.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5082/7929/files/dabami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5529/2321/files/55160694460.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9652/3423/files/neon_trees_animal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7732/8278/files/rofif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4774/6721/files/vipuvevesoxemotaxaribe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7296/9109/files/select_max_sql.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/nerukinovavul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/notibozuxuwoberof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6160/6565/files/vuzebidabatu.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_off000058e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58E4 5748 bytes
SHA-256: e472ca1f1fa813afd08c57a1a446186728b38ee3615d3c4884214cf8c5913407
font_01_sfnt_off00006c44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C44 10348 bytes
SHA-256: a8e3fd14f2fda136716ad5376dc9b01058fd00663d024388ebb17ca937ffd540