Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f977c5ab1e451f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 16:39:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 16b981a185477c184d1ccd9d862dd6f8 SHA-1: 3892ae4533ab614cdfd898656cc022899af129d8 SHA-256: 1f977c5ab1e451f7b80462e6e36cf342b3a41e2474eb5a21174c41711dcff29a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a prominent link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as a business contract agreement. This is further supported by heuristics indicating a malicious redirector and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded link and document structure strongly indicate a phishing or redirection attack.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=business+contract+agreement+sample+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://katus.deliverydoula.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/gazurebafel-gowujiremezogo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.twiggardens.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163533/dokelutawa_bajobuxarir_fusuzet_pinuzu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fulew.leftyyang.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/872205.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thetalentz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438324/8700017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.worklifespanish.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398440/2ea150a42a2.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/1/0432/8806/8254/files/dotizolejirikizugafep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4926/3004/files/34807052727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5327/7603/files/xcii_in_roman_numerals.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8014/7359/files/33819568752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/7530/1539/files/bronchopneumonia_in_child.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0708/0605/files/videnedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2247/3624/files/metabolic_syndrome_articles.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/7975/7977/files/graveyard_keeper_hops_seeds.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1104/7575/files/jodisufoku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/kevomipunezinukap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2391/7475/files/lupobupexinesoxetodoned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1087/2728/files/xidoxinififu.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_off00006835.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6835 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 7ae9999f800b8e6c5b9d6462e5801b9dadac431c2b63d9dd14051a7892eeb7a2
font_01_sfnt_off00007ae3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE3 10536 bytes
SHA-256: 50a2635469cabd2c90e7b5b7061241e4b6d42e213f9e143278f09fef975f4073