Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b7d1469cca07fe3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 18:53:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 61b4cd6e0ff2c4bf3b7ae4563369cc73 SHA-1: 2c8bab775eb824bd4f0ad100244aa5459abdc16c SHA-256: 5b7d1469cca07fe39c17adc7453953ca5a06336b711489be3544dbd36ec58bbe
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for a 'project meeting cadence template'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests an attempt to create a link farm or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/pify?keyword=project+meeting+cadence+template In PDF document text
    • http://jukisepi.thingsgreen.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856318/kumibevisa-xoraluverubadu-pezuxisu-tigukoguvuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bivopo.capitalarealiteracy.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381435/1973292.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/1/0431/5470/2496/files/the_jinx_watch_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/30617095305.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/34996744553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1814/8261/files/gaporivugowomivuxutew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9996/2024/files/3856444844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1482/3834/files/all_falls_down_piano_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23063093424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3582/0185/files/non_chronological_report_examples_volcanoes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8390/6724/files/kugesorasowufozusuvel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4330/5110/files/kings_of_leon_pyro_piano_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2474/3591/files/29035722627.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_off00005b3c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B3C 5292 bytes
SHA-256: af29fa11d559da9e6097e8e2416309dcae7d4d075210d1c827f4aa62e676a2ba
font_01_sfnt_off00006d21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D21 9952 bytes
SHA-256: de73fa1f68a6c97ab453e5fd7a6d067e91b96085b2fcfb90b9dee410a215a4ee

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