Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1970013040e5de44…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-16 16:14:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 52ad8a90bf03198ebab986c8b4bdf77b SHA-1: 21607a101e34a7708475570bfeb84a657ff6dda4 SHA-256: 1970013040e5de4492d1fd0e58bafc53979045e53d1a80511e749961fc0b4c82
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to 'Qatar airways management information system' and embeds numerous links. Several of these links, including one directly in the document body, point to malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links suggests a phishing or scam attempt.

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=qatar+airways+management+information+system In PDF document text
    • http://pavupima.ivnmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437079/f05871117bce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hooksnsinkers.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681026/tabademijoxuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dowogufob.armleydancestudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437079/fabagotoj.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/1/0431/5725/8401/files/spanish_verb_tenses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2044/3045/files/33531782118.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0004/4454/files/factory_reset_xbox_one_without_screen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7046/3895/files/85446056944.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0958/0961/files/zupijikijuwawil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/lifesotag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9848/1564/files/ferorotaginawumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7568/2972/files/anesthesia_machine_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6621/3031/files/anatolian_languages.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/canticorum_jubilo_piano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2992/8863/files/amablesser_lyrics_free.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006751.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6751 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 6d694aa3993d8d4a7d0ab149b38ba4df28fd5957012825fd0eebbace78cda9fb
font_01_sfnt_off00007969.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7969 10052 bytes
SHA-256: c8f2a4a0f74479408b1a1328a75ff00cc80abb42acb60440501701d8a5593444

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