Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a7cf2349dc40dd2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-16 01:00:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5b41d41b33f178dadf54e1a4bb4a1ec7 SHA-1: 57febfcdcd1628561b82e46203e53927ffcbe93c SHA-256: 5a7cf2349dc40dd22a2fa34cdf7cbb3bab5c9c54b8a59a23451b72b9f56f2cdf
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links designed to create an SEO link farm, with a primary redirector pointing to a malicious website. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.com/wb?keyword=wet%20op%20de%20ondernemingsraad%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vomorenburg.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/5580987.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.victoriacircus.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379406/1730083.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vokiwege.scaffolddawgs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739059/5f08b7a7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zudowi.buyportlandstores.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438025/jimakuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nubexe.pattyschroeder.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/3231517.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/1/0429/5501/4298/files/muputamureg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0916/9815/files/vuliwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3342/0199/files/7801030819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6728/4383/files/barbara_cartland_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/14184571691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5692/2777/files/fuzedakijaruzukage.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0904/7708/files/dd-_214_blanket.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2601/4620/files/6339962295.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1342/0702/files/addition_and_subtraction_word_problems_worksheets_5th_grade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0402/files/sirir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0473/1300/files/href_lnks_displaying_as_plain_text_php.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9360/6048/files/eleventh_hour_cissp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5735/6710/files/tomiseno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5681/6540/files/the_danish_girl_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6759/6184/files/saxuri.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006460.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6460 5344 bytes
SHA-256: 7e6ada507389f2518eced3eb543d1a8df9e269c75d2b0380ee2121934a8add7a
font_01_sfnt_off00007681.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7681 10540 bytes
SHA-256: 16e17d01bc4139528684676628adef7672e9ddbdc88c8cfa06f8792fe22adfda