Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 198415167394319f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 13:14:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3fcd3618353814f674b6c22ae9d53291 SHA-1: 247f134438ed1edbd12671ed3c999b03247c9dd7 SHA-256: 198415167394319f4dd357d9cf6bb461b86aa5ca333e9610aa097b7c35ce0105
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple links, including one to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of numerous SEO-optimized PDF links points towards a link farm designed to lure unsuspecting users. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=sony+dream+machine+icf-+c318 In PDF document text
    • http://files.newlifestylesnepelenaferraretto.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070625/xagatamudul-barisopopuwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ardeesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776268/0b47962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.boracaynewcoastph.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738603/nekokimogitur-najuruboxoz-sopup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fontrix.comhttp://www.nhncorp.comIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0367/4785/files/vevegixibiwolij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4059/5352/files/rizixonezepikuxilimesetav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2853/7753/files/sumapanozenodanoxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/lazunixelokudapirapapat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7849/2062/files/wilamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9426/8320/files/tilofezokijak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9220/4950/files/81674723657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7654/0834/files/wemofegexezixuretipikawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0835/2679/files/36030891245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0452/files/git_abandon_changes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/80609419301.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ff5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FF5 5700 bytes
SHA-256: 6725057878630e6165efaa36f90bb66aa823b641e1159b1dc6edb148e8a69fd5
font_01_sfnt_off00008346.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8346 2232 bytes
SHA-256: 191ee83db55e9830731a749de297590b2a2f48374a12a17f1d75adb54f78d451
font_02_sfnt_off00008cdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CDD 10916 bytes
SHA-256: 76f066b9ad122c67e5c272f76d5db4199dc5858363eb825bc867e585ae3ca9ad
font_03_sfnt_off0000b178.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB178 2468 bytes
SHA-256: f01063df4dec4aac56e61417a9825202c4cc07224ec4fc6c0a7cf81afcdd176f