Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e7a217d9fe1643a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.1 KB Created: 2020-08-13 08:16:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 350f85bfdcf8ef0f159ef073b6af30cd SHA-1: acdef178e6c4b3ffb1365c2c8d2dffd338b0acbf SHA-256: 5e7a217d9fe1643a674181a6cc8e1d2f55218a5ce719b20ec7101e5b69fc1c3a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including a critical finding for a redirector link and a PDF SEO link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector found in the heuristics. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking a link that leads to malicious content, likely a phishing page or malware download.

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.cc/wb?keyword=past%20continuous%20exercises%20pre%20intermediate%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.yeyeluisahteish.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379946/d755e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.templecitypoodles.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454766/wojinolokexip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.assemblyrowoffices.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814535/4e37c16.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/1/0435/1839/4523/files/bruno_latour_reassembling_the_social.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8656/0936/files/22215488822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5590/4918/files/63904191523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4161/2199/files/miwoxut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6240/1947/files/92238577603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9689/1807/files/24735781812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0081/files/sesudogoziginitadeleni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/pukikogesopixorilojet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9139/3698/files/gedinineduwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/61644972264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5750/files/41731619609.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_off0000575b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x575B 5336 bytes
SHA-256: 7eb335ed04d30decf72df1ca0662917b34b7cc5ef79e55bdaee05805fb8b4d20
font_01_sfnt_off00006964.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6964 9996 bytes
SHA-256: bbf8483f33dfd54ec97cba924d5485c591b75d9e4cef07a3e34f466cba649224