Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3fb4d8a2a2d1f8c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 19:25:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c0e37bc91712a535f858b318da8b3cec SHA-1: 59ba86fe9229803c3366d3f8dbe03d33abb0e4ca SHA-256: 3fb4d8a2a2d1f8c3c2360173f6a1217e280d3d0a29c6c47271eb4d284d9bd15e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to a URL designed to lure users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and numerous other URLs, many of which are hosted on potentially suspicious domains. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content broadly. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not 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.
  • 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=heart+rate+variability+in+athletes+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://batibu.catmeyers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163599/4a7693d8d5dfeec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whatsupwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/reteviwawukat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ihellary.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740490/vinijekuxidoje-lekifoxom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.niagarasuicidepreventioncoalition.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/fuwem_kujajos.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/1/0429/7303/6697/files/pedrotti_optics_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1712/6563/files/96845283622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9239/3640/files/zekizafevodil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0505/1029/files/labun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4872/9766/files/assassin_s_creed_black_flag_trainer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4224/2709/files/39116669842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2759/3376/files/ar_55_46.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/22224813736.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1414/4675/files/fipiwedefetobomad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4061/3286/files/8254381066.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3983/4791/files/medicinal_chemistry_by_ashutosh_kar.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_off0000676d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x676D 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 22072274a0c6e4943ea7040b0bd6d48d77b35c66b4d362bd8b03cd58cf5a86e2
font_01_sfnt_off000079b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79B5 10676 bytes
SHA-256: 95ccafc3bf3253ac4ef608d241fdcbbab5168fec055c7efb18b6da38941e168b