Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1fee7af0023a4f84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 21:03:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bedc555e0a5e5864f618fad38117b73f SHA-1: 66f27ac5f15e5731e7e53a598f3b66d1abc8e527 SHA-256: 1fee7af0023a4f84dfd48c983f75b5b4df8cd7e28fd208e46e1442115dfae514
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to appear as legitimate PDF downloads, but the primary link redirects to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the intent is to trick users into downloading further malicious content or visiting compromised sites.

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=abnormality+in+psychology+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jclandscapingandmasonry.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683137/82d8bf5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dupaw.faithmortimerauthor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453323/8c3ae12302dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drwendyying.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483955/likipupodirugim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tukatavientiane.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712558/4304847.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/1/0438/0455/7469/files/our_casuarina_tree_critical_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4914/7816/files/manetajuzixupupuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5377/files/zinaluperukuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7319/8487/files/xetidat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4511/7342/files/xuzew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0349/5071/files/15990464413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tikodizexosuva.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_off0000e19f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE19F 5800 bytes
SHA-256: 9124e4a628b0aff055f35e6e5ef965b1b6405bcace7508fd1ef52034c7dfd813
font_01_sfnt_off0000f518.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF518 10336 bytes
SHA-256: 1c9096b86bc03bdfd9a565704e1d5f5a2d2da149bf051c525db8024c5b3c62d2