Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22931b1cec186597…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-02 12:29:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c8187c98dc96574239dcbc7bc7b523df SHA-1: 67927dca92c2253ae188e2ebeb503e57c083ea48 SHA-256: 22931b1cec186597f49c911afbbce23fcf42b2a85ef8819dbd57d8b0535c6df0
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the same as the malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download' button lure further supports a malicious intent to redirect the user to harmful content.

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=shapes+in+gimp In PDF document text
    • http://files.droolwool.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437725/8566107.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.qb4ply.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069950/6217961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.xjrichert.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740124/suxajojakimemu_dagigosaji_kozapudula_tugezuxajiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.willowfree.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740344/xiwodufa.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/1/0440/2728/1558/files/get_element_by_id_in_view_port.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7316/5725/files/gupigetatamufizefimutu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7400/0798/files/rabifarawazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/8833338052.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8674/0646/files/vatudujopakeminuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9945/3608/files/wexonagisalarireboxesunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9585/8083/files/muzarixoxivuba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6367/0939/files/96767419140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3687/6695/files/15909846023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7154/6279/files/mirexeruvagujumefeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7279/6310/files/xadebuzozoxizejex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5889/6802/files/nirigal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6500/6494/files/12128534359.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1993/5655/files/gatixosulevadigozila.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_off0000642f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x642F 5208 bytes
SHA-256: 709d584dd35b847b3b9c811a18c209f75061ebcffaf711f690c580c3af3cec89
font_01_sfnt_off000075c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75C5 9808 bytes
SHA-256: 7a52fbbab2d41ebd9dcf16cd881b4d7ae339067adc7078a92dbb9198fdf061f5