Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e6e932388b8a938…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ac21b5ec6f02e2ec25da0753b12407a7 SHA-1: 36f57af1585f055c90cf7c74ed05d942e904fc06 SHA-256: 4e6e932388b8a93880198df1d62e9abfbedeb66de1156db1cc21bd18e2b375a9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body appears to be malformed or obfuscated, but the presence of numerous external links suggests a link farm or redirection scheme designed to lead users to malicious content.

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.ru/pify?keyword=howrah+sonatala+weather+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.bearstatebowhunters.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069744/bosumekiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thenextbigthink.co/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739238/domasafuv-bebujes-numilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dawnhorstead.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740591/lezemubopag-foxikesutofa-dovixoxa-vekiguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dalawop.rhodanagency.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741136/buvenuzokinuzaz.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/1/0434/6226/2936/files/rakidijozakivisevazulof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8307/5477/files/bi_rads_atlas_5th_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4136/4890/files/zekujog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1302/0570/files/71856027302.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4797/7114/files/sipigijejesogif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1924/8295/files/95804184793.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0668/7389/files/33260361203.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2971/6374/files/78899882615.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_off000054e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54E7 4960 bytes
SHA-256: 6caf15f69913c02c800253424876d5a1168d0ba5c0b4cb1ec3dd7897939ba5e0
font_01_sfnt_off000065c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C8 10304 bytes
SHA-256: 61d77e14c2bd5760736a72f060b7c0437acaf2c98b0d30c5bc18ab504e719fa4

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