Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 362968fd8f9fff70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 14:32:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8db7d5b29f439d2f905e09304d9de12a SHA-1: dec696afd3475e5f46fa87313e276ac0489c7c0e SHA-256: 362968fd8f9fff70b741a44a497b322ad946b6a9904a6def50cf967c99ce6f1a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to suspicious or unknown domains, indicating a link farm or redirection attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated content, further supporting the malicious intent of directing users to external, potentially harmful, 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.com/pify?keyword=auxiliary+view+in+engineering+drawing+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kidawo.fefesdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740353/salivilelifotibe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovudu.vocabularyninja.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070786/vebewadezotizad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.proficiencyfirst.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437633/3860664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kovom.starzplace.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/xutovip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2026/3322/files/fuvosetigufi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2205/6600/files/watino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3605/5454/files/coa_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3625/2072/files/lord_of_the_flies_symbolism_essay.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6160/6550/files/medical_certificate_format_for_sick_leave_for_student.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0881/0398/files/20511805768.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0223/2983/files/vudegedezubodurujuwefomir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5715/1142/files/complete_bass_guitar_lessons.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1364/files/where_s_my_money_brian.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8344/7968/files/nawujigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7591/files/87146893825.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
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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e40.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E40 5036 bytes
SHA-256: aaf41190e78925d40105ac7f02c5364c16082d8422d742e35c028900d3f06f24
font_01_sfnt_off00007f7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F7E 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 659be6b486fc8e98fee4d90c2a0df9ae4113df4cbc01d565c6f98005c5bbe32d
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1F8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c