Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49cf159ee003c01e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:32:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9a7f17b50daf2c5ffac9d361a1942d1a SHA-1: 6150c84c1a8cc6ee42f4af7a3ff3a26764af71b8 SHA-256: 49cf159ee003c01e09a4bb2daead12cf6667a94ade59a1d2ef32880c3f57ecd9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=garrapata+boophilus+microplus+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wujuweza.sophisticatedfit.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/digiwaridubute_wefimuzuteluxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.grahamstead.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738988/5196576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://meluxod.sssacademics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775443/kowas_mebef_neruwibujula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://puwaf.anastazjakrokosphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379552/tulomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wawig.geoffreyobrian.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/21c32e.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/1/0433/8316/0995/files/3000_chinese_character_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7742/5557/files/46398823997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1687/8242/files/environmental_chemistry_baird_solutions_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kupesuditijativerawepafu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0402/5242/files/biopsicologa_pinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2708/4965/files/figobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7735/4143/files/manonukobipuwujerulirus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2484/9815/files/20706258476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9850/5369/files/wiparuzaguzijita.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4302/7106/files/spanish_1_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7469/8902/files/zonef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3078/8758/files/79934476453.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007d2b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D2B 5564 bytes
SHA-256: 3f27c5155e41e30c2854949759307e0a93e17f27de389a9fd85470d7bf8d6a52
font_01_sfnt_off00008fea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FEA 10600 bytes
SHA-256: c5f5fe90188ecca80637a35b85d14d09b62ad046e5b3287f671c83a9918bdea3
font_02_sfnt_off0000b46f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB46F 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e