Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 37e8c7e5761be9f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:04:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a72b7aa71aa3a7c2d3400e6d67900833 SHA-1: 565a60d7c2027f147739edbfa44a78b6963467c2 SHA-256: 37e8c7e5761be9f0aa51aec61e001fc46f096934fa48c512f0110a2407c2ea8b
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector. The presence of a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attack. The document also contains urgency language, further supporting a social engineering pretext.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=ara2+bula+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.albcountry.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397946/porijubemerupom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.juliabuntaine.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738714/kadukenelal-nobobonivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bluecrescentstudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740413/lexifik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.independentauthornetwork.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482968/kewokuxubed.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/1/0432/8921/5129/files/bernard_purdie_let_the_drums_speak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7300/2906/files/12006235510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0810/files/samsung_m2020_driver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4548/5725/files/tigafepif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2599/5688/files/bubipimadikibunujuduk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5396/4702/files/java_oracle_downloads.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5939/4213/files/79594322153.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6488/5397/files/44463601347.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3427/0117/files/rizuxegipaxejewokimeke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4893/files/guzorasifedakogigagaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1810/0637/files/15666616710.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5451/files/22545417614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0668/1497/files/weneman.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fea9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFEA9 4540 bytes
SHA-256: 5bfc7ab05438819cdaa62c853d0078f95d0e5acd22c560b8f278381ce2557244
font_01_sfnt_off00010e0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E0F 12248 bytes
SHA-256: 1a395301d997497b94fb2c4e5c94db30d35ec46221d26ecc7a200de9cfc2e253
font_02_sfnt_off0001359a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1359A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230