Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ee62c6606f45208…

MALICIOUS

PDF

79.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 20:56:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 85d0c30dd9bb458db67c59f5282d6abe SHA-1: 4c39deab7b86ce1a50b25fe167b0849fb5e13890 SHA-256: 4ee62c6606f45208b7327eaaeb1c23fc167b4fe5289b29c66194565d4948af71
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded JavaScript and multiple links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'biochips pdf free download' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users to download further content. The presence of a link farm further supports the SEO-based distribution tactic.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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=biochips+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://powowukor.zionweekdayministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384709/vobosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wichitasouth77.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815277/6768741.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.donalcox.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814769/8047314.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/1/0431/5496/4631/files/nifokujosiwufupopexaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5382/5704/files/allotment_of_share_ppt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8047/4014/files/bojudiwozawedirisujakev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8837/0077/files/6867548534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0485/4426/files/94910767590.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4890/2556/files/tatuxupubabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6503/1321/files/gijelulexizuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3900/6615/files/neonatal_advanced_life_support_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9313/1425/files/48301366333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8227/6257/files/fovinum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5107/4214/files/gta_san_andreas_cheat_codes_pc_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6333/files/wawelovolexizafivejavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1642/1529/files/unfinished_gun_gungeon.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000a8a0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA8A0 4264 bytes
SHA-256: 2000921d9eec7a3d1a591bd6a3739a592da88ea208795d1b35b8ef82d217915f
font_01_sfnt_off0000b7a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB7A9 5384 bytes
SHA-256: 25716bb219689d61967fcc47e081419e7dc582554077a60e2a5ee3f46447b6ba
font_02_sfnt_off0000c9fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9FD 27960 bytes
SHA-256: 077fa3eeac9e47c1a57894b0b307098d94b0b943d1ca89625c8f6fb430029592
font_03_sfnt_off0001199e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1199E 16100 bytes
SHA-256: d98a9309e076b13835c6659d635ae6c9662cc733e578b44ec6f104cfef2f50ae