Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 478cb5ced5c92dc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-09-11 04:21:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9845654e0396152bcef5b32d7a09aa8a SHA-1: 6a705757b89cda4bc4d47bfa1fa513e795644030 SHA-256: 478cb5ced5c92dc39bee00174b8486ffa7575592ed40be7c0aad84351304eb43
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, identified as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious websites. One critical heuristic specifically flagged a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the observed link farm behavior. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.club/wix?keyword=malayalam+fancy+fonts+free In PDF document text
    • http://wewuxevij.mastech-engineering.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739163/sorasixukipudazam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.flyrgfa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381428/248d5aef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.happytea4u.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871424/mitoneroxu_kowewan_wuvurogijubire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nudemub.apollodrivingschoolhull.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437299/ladubujomada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.africananimalworld.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813362/topimadewez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.photography-timeless.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775462/meresugukazope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.checklistinspections.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405977/01d739fcf0ced.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.labyrinthe-montclar.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681891/bevixowan-xovoworukaluri-mideko-nojutenumojuji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nijug.hblts.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379732/8ca70360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1974/8006/files/books_to_read_about_life.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4376/6950/files/11293982808.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1848/5923/files/kogadipifazaripesufekov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2821/5968/files/probability_mass_function_cdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0044/5597/files/2mb_sample_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5539/0630/files/sujigoguzividinanelederis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2625/0901/files/japan_guide_osaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7737/7958/files/airbrush_templates_stencils.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2246/7750/files/body_image_lessons.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
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000548c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x548C 5136 bytes
SHA-256: 243fa3fbe2f7ac4c571afe434de6f8396645b7e16f9fd7eba032fbb0f1113d1c
font_01_sfnt_off000065ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65FF 3048 bytes
SHA-256: 4bb619f7e4c8d10c6650d66271e6db770d7def95493d885be3efe54e7c100c22
font_02_sfnt_off0000720f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x720F 14432 bytes
SHA-256: 47a7e91bae15ed1d7bb6883f9f63752b6fae3435c621306467ad1dc32c694ef2