Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 222cab7a901a40be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:10:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5d117ab37efb61cf805b742decc968da SHA-1: fe8e328e94822d103980c0a6f403ce9c36f72d6a SHA-256: 222cab7a901a40beeccbc7dcb4a9d3e319a2713b27b9a063645d389fdf74cec6
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a movie title and a URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of a visual download button further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack. The primary IOC is the malicious redirector URL.

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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=x-+men+apocalypse+movie++in+tamil+hd In PDF document text
    • http://files.davinkarin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696274/bezuxot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jinuzo.kristenmeeceart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775162/c08fcd.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/1/0435/2186/7930/files/46697510989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2084/5210/files/43853599655.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2389/1618/files/cutting_edge_intermediate_3rd_edition_vk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8984/4631/files/fmab_op_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/56655156305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/11652383850.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7354/4093/files/rituxupajeviledota.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006005.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6005 5388 bytes
SHA-256: c53be25189266d2af678190e9fb5b1235ee9e7820fc8e616cc22e24b210b6b17
font_01_sfnt_off00007237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7237 10508 bytes
SHA-256: 7da30287d4474010561c4aba68819e729f7174ac2a62472b5c33fb69adaa3d91
font_02_sfnt_off0000962b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x962B 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e

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