Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22223225970ca76e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 10:39:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 544909b22c933adca6aec2f937324207 SHA-1: d42ac95380dd283674b4ed5b4363df6a3f406b8a SHA-256: 22223225970ca76e71b07d640ca02efbccbe86568c5c790e91fd2af8488877f3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. The presence of numerous shopify.com links, many of which are benign, may be an attempt to camouflage the malicious redirector.

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=capteur+de+proximit%25C3%25A9+capacitif+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thesunnymom.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871494/lenojuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.centralfloridadressage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482976/4a1ea79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southernoksrrodeo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453124/5160425.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/1/0431/6240/2967/files/97589489137.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1311/9905/files/22749753726.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5447/2087/files/how_to_uninstall_eclipse_on_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6938/2568/files/exxaro_bursary_application_forms_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/bewava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9117/3278/files/74874803631.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/bawonirujegijikelixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6105/1546/files/vexujodogajivojegurelalax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9899/5864/files/bexev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5012/3943/files/gibifukimenifefasixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/74832969368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8307/0630/files/sobalamakeguririduwiv.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_off00005fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAC 5208 bytes
SHA-256: ed716a2bf1cd710a450dce8848e6de18a7cac70e58e492505659c9166cdc14d9
font_01_sfnt_off0000710e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x710E 11840 bytes
SHA-256: 78f1329414e3346dccf0a3479208b3374b4561c9846e2ae05c0aefab7a581378