Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 425ee883b790e9bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 09:54:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2b66fe36c928caabb35f4d3ab88b6fa7 SHA-1: 2b494f2cd2395428c80171f119aa60c83651a944 SHA-256: 425ee883b790e9bb8e346363d05fe2a58658596d61cc8178095b1c71432066c5
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate downloads, but many redirect to malicious infrastructure. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a large number of external PDF links, and PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the use of a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of this link farm, suggesting an attempt to trick users into downloading further malicious 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.
  • 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.ru/wb?keyword=hp%20z800%20workstation%20specs%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dalosazo.charleswakefieldartist.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775727/tafevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jutojoto.seychellesbirdrecordscommittee.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775803/gamunup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chirocure.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405948/rolasuralunip.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/646255477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8588/1759/files/adobe_dreamweaver_cs3_tutorial_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8854/files/fluid_mechanics_solution_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4455/2354/files/botany_for_degree_students_algae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7503/4520/files/besobijaneguxebu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6081/3208/files/how_to_unfollow_someone_on_facebook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/60291298735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4468/4454/files/21577024140.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5464/4894/files/7016797134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5331/7272/files/chac_mool_carlos_fuentes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2865/9874/files/borijisitajo.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_off00005938.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5938 5620 bytes
SHA-256: 739330c447615e4581c9742e7ac59c5fa9bbf76d1697d8cae97b31b82cb9b72f
font_01_sfnt_off00006c7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C7B 14940 bytes
SHA-256: ad3c80d810a04d46dce3def858c2326aebce4eabc1dc3097e535973c67d888ea