Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4208f6bbed8b7d73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-07-28 06:52:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ba4dcfbb4f7d50dd9963888c77eaa1a7 SHA-1: 4e090edd5d929b0735109a2fbe34b32b5790cbbd SHA-256: 4208f6bbed8b7d739c9c3b9a8e37c19693c144fffac5dc42f48a562d77d7f4b9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to a known malicious URL. Additionally, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates the presence of a link farm with 16 external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Conference call for papers template', suggesting a lure.

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.ru/pify?keyword=conference+call+for+papers+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.pasinfonia.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681558/luroru-putas-wasonorofadi-bukafutominosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.animalprograms.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163705/55cbfdd1e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesaviorsstory.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681647/b4ed2d753bf.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54183348773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2718/5309/files/47636475081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1648/7065/files/4021899241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5543/0309/files/nopapozetove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1908/2651/files/12819772937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0699/9203/files/jujitapidigazutiwuzof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9961/9492/files/25221633857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2401/5783/files/2545793646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4560/0936/files/zowamafemaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3158/5180/files/38332943313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6237/0210/files/67832913242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6944/7073/files/burituwugaduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6570/4599/files/47976165424.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071b5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71B5 4924 bytes
SHA-256: 96c606d1edc5350db2e50c7b05f82e35dbee4e891319168d7a945d31260f6990
font_01_sfnt_off00008252.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8252 10192 bytes
SHA-256: f8b25a1534e05ff6e7f9f0e9377911c3a057dc5000362e6241e7691d2207ae55

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