Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 472854fc25ae66d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 00:43:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5711a2b0425525093d6b101292e3473f SHA-1: fbe6bb1123918cdf8c459a0903e35cd7a4cf50a2 SHA-256: 472854fc25ae66d2d2604f9a31e79ec4ffd1f8b670bc353c068a4d4fce667c02
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'acute respiratory distress syndrome' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt where the user is tricked into clicking a link that leads to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=acute+respiratory+distress+syndrome+jama+2018+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.purposewny.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637928/5893329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://memijov.edmontongreendragon.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/fufukediriw-potazifif-jagosuleka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.katherinemarieprice.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776296/3140051.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/1/0430/7383/1072/files/zisub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9039/4788/files/vulefutimuzuvuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jedajuzosefowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/memew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9028/8535/files/fididewoxosugitusinumod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9427/8293/files/autodesk_inventor_professional_2017_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2468/7014/files/senanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8073/6151/files/31972473416.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5034/4352/files/girosavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6761/2063/files/novena_navidad_para_nios.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8937/1029/files/fubifewumisipiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6192/7318/files/14110820882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0910/6335/files/bcs_power_plan_book_download.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_off0000633a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x633A 5956 bytes
SHA-256: e545a372e0762770914e7d9b38c05afe05792da4cc9da40759359097144b78e8
font_01_sfnt_off0000777f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x777F 10700 bytes
SHA-256: 0d874f1c8595a1ae704403fbbc8e481f83fe0d42785565da611874a9805c7c43

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