Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d1d2922a735def7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-02 14:24:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3f87c1cf4de1e3e86aa0def5f53fc6cb SHA-1: 01c4ea8655ad681304976fc342efc3071b8c52fd SHA-256: 4d1d2922a735def77f7e2a5c85ef0ae5b4d8db39d05a3ea94a2476eef952c57c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL that is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Neil Cavuto net worth' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve search engine ranking or distribute content widely.

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=neil+cavuto+net+worth In PDF document text
    • http://files.asenathmustang.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969206/064476f98eeff5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.amybournephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/37f93859efa295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bellecreekresources.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398253/5630458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2069/8268/files/84305416782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0275/7281/files/7385365857.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/rawupuborafonirutas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4178/3959/files/fitekowujov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gidawibozifuniji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4287/4278/files/patiwotimunobevad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4831/9638/files/20869665611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0667/3574/files/8838918716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jedufejaselikaruratemop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9512/1319/files/nulitufixopekege.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7931/1253/files/58222801867.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40545468116.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000716b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x716B 4712 bytes
SHA-256: ad324328af47eed77ddda0cdb9784bf2e9296fa58a0dedc7d5d963692d0a588b
font_01_sfnt_off00008171.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8171 11796 bytes
SHA-256: 34b886d91965e19390c2906ea283d8920dcd9540b5696e87ab304aad9e6e493a
font_02_sfnt_off0000a7cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7CF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c

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