Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 50662f41a92bb0d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:19:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d6b1c9beead2f9da880d7fb6821d020d SHA-1: ea5b4486e1b11f293e85a1c512fe9f5e28ba5359 SHA-256: 50662f41a92bb0d8019075326d5e132d72070382bd9c765f0e1d7ceeabb0b5c4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains a URL that leads to a redirector service, which is likely used to obscure the final destination or to distribute malicious content. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to the same redirector, suggests an attempt at SEO poisoning or a phishing campaign.

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=balaa+drama+ost+song In PDF document text
    • http://files.wileyreads.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482975/8119889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.emsbabyhouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/4591282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.carolinevanthoff.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696465/veniwulaga.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/1/0437/3915/2535/files/20660378049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4235/6904/files/81980300006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5894/files/71246954270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3361/6803/files/asian_cup_fixtures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6240/9881/files/rorisenatumubitunixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6360/6429/files/pisapikajifisapikebesof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8408/6424/files/94199151816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6288/6549/files/city_of_endless_night.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6120/6422/files/42239262459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8883/0873/files/alphabetical_series_reasoning_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9553/files/rizadurinov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6879/1713/files/59747851937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4697/7179/files/24438619160.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
🗂 Part of campaign: carolinevanthoff.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006986.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6986 5192 bytes
SHA-256: 071dd24c11877e509ab0ed951cc7d757055c45f30d2602f9dc1b543335464bed
font_01_sfnt_off00007b0b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B0B 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 8e1574e0ddf741ae308815b2b7440e99696c12dc95d1e01c98a4049b2536ad33
font_02_sfnt_off00009dd7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DD7 18056 bytes
SHA-256: 6cf92560e2bcc41629ec0c19eab806a6c5d01d7c9918dd94990192e231b1c48a