Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5d05abe93b991c5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

145.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 15:32:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a3cc6d2a2dc24fd4bdfa42a093422730 SHA-1: d6a2746a8f61c74baf751f88513f3ba6872977f5 SHA-256: 5d05abe93b991c5b23ad56d568101d51995b816561f42fcd606b7aa540a1e7fd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external PDFs, many of which are hosted on domains associated with redirectors and SEO link farms, indicating a phishing or scam campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics as a malicious redirector. The presence of embedded URLs and the ML classifier's high confidence score suggest malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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/pify?keyword=autocad+pdf+frame+variable In PDF document text
    • http://wulajaxon.mox-vr.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/modidovilomewaxuwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.studioappalachia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681823/mofikow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jezapoko.hootenbio.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/fulizetawega-foxeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dofixaf.thehealthyessence.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874064/dulenumasatuxukabota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.triplestarbn.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681970/siredebazimis-zevom-majewejer-simivuti.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/1/0431/4238/1725/files/media_query_mobile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6227/8809/files/95866984668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5590/6967/files/tejafud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2177/0657/files/90771467016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8339/1395/files/44647436722.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6544/9371/files/dozoko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3445/0840/files/17768101973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2832/4257/files/92812043599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4752/6305/files/bash_try_catch.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5529/9237/files/balance_of_payment_of_pakistan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8669/0969/files/fujuzirupusegarumiwobigo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7988/3170/files/41365680102.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kevesuladufutaniwor.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_off00020057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x20057 5312 bytes
SHA-256: 5e0f85166cb57e2a15ca205b6967507ec18d87f1c572798d9b410e2889c8e808
font_01_sfnt_off0002124f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x2124F 11456 bytes
SHA-256: e6126beff49ddb0705c6f51742a5c340d0988f51fbc1818f78ff8b855e5451bf

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