Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f125f9eb59c9113…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-09-16 19:17:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 66b5a28d352d297d64fc41d15e809328 SHA-1: 291e52e66ea44346a74b523d7b0d3a4b98d5e5f3 SHA-256: 1f125f9eb59c91134e1d21dc924521b9375da723ecc989d635ae4a11a6983dfa
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'Crock-pot manual' and embedded URLs, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous PDF links points to a link farm strategy to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=crock-pot+sccpvl610-s-a+6-quart+manual In PDF document text
    • http://nefusima.nmffa.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/1514188.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tovadu.heatherbiggsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816091/6809956c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southkeyscentrum.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407705/mitefalurozabu-retaketelef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lanupimo.primarydigit.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607062/3de4170946206f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jeffwatsonhomes.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453682/ratizoxijoxezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ucfootball.co.nz/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775776/757eb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.accentplanks.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775373/zipuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://5ea413f3-7c38-460c-b283-62d744c7cefc.filesusr.com/ugd/80bfa9_cf8eb9b8920940e79f4332959a65035b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a4ecb70f-176d-427f-96df-bf8e00e39159.filesusr.com/ugd/8a4248_0ea6035a71dc4be694bd770ef0b70375.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://2ee34eab-a307-41a4-a519-612966da7509.filesusr.com/ugd/03ae60_967be0b3e0a6484484a4f20f29667afb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://39631599-c222-4c48-92c0-6cc8022ca34f.filesusr.com/ugd/9d869b_8e8b9d329bd44b67b4170f0d072a3887.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7554/1919/files/90800295106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0623/8613/files/l_accord_du_participe_passe_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9571/8040/files/roxubolanarewoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6754/7552/files/banking_awareness_arihant_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1961/6935/files/jaxak.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_off00004e60.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E60 5612 bytes
SHA-256: c12029d40543b9555e10351d12a47031861a48ec4bbd4e8a920f4e0d1ed9913a
font_01_sfnt_off0000617e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x617E 10124 bytes
SHA-256: 6d0af238def98a3fd4ac3b429bc2d476376147d4cdfb1720cc5f12a5d568033e