Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1272afea5612a9b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.7 KB Created: 2020-08-03 08:49:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: de8f106d27ac1ad82c23e10cd3938937 SHA-1: 852099cb733b81553789763685f858db7949aa0f SHA-256: 1272afea5612a9b0bf1d0b686b424bac791f76af8ed3478546a3bc314372f2e0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a software download, likely leading to malware. The presence of a large number of PDF links suggests an attempt to create a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious 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=tropicraft+1.+7+10 In PDF document text
    • http://files.mscalbanyga.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163684/c9d06e6a30f2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nomadesgourmandes.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069789/sezulaveselamixud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.squarecanvasart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814124/nilonemajaxegij-lorisages-monijatixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.allennationalschool.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856619/5336644.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.haroutioun-derderian.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398424/c08560.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/1/0430/0118/4417/files/xanunedujibitulejewiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0718/0954/files/duzavekilut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1341/2760/files/51775344111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6038/8259/files/gexirubunofetovukasokazot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0885/1098/files/95336095734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8146/6005/files/51359713760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8491/3563/files/55380465707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4340/4441/files/9592863417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5018/0503/files/36434434649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4155/3575/files/atwood_furnace_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6956/3290/files/dagubagom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sobobubujuwin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3772/0733/files/mamurukege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6992/3740/files/onyxia_s_lair_location.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_off00005844.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5844 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 52cbe01631caa3707ee5e3c46358ce07b87533ff545361bd66c699e1f69f262f
font_01_sfnt_off00006999.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6999 10664 bytes
SHA-256: 551919b41453e981e1ecd5600e2d15016aab3afe562f5070b184eb667ae3e81c