Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6272a3fb10445290…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-09-18 08:56:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 14d1cd2346a73cc7a107770c8a25f8aa SHA-1: 61e18faaddefe0720133e7d8c4f5a35b5ccddc95 SHA-256: 6272a3fb104452901951b15eab493f268c80c9c53c37e3d16e1d1ce2d4c042d9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious redirector and a list of other URLs, many hosted on Shopify. This suggests the PDF is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or scam purposes.

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.link/wix?keyword=the+barcode+tattoo In PDF document text
    • http://taxes.n3vem.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813059/tovezolegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ocsny.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776054/muworikudazubux-zazeni-wuvubepajuxokut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nifejinij.wethammockfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856177/6270512.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://boraverek.mahsamohaghegh.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606345/3cd4d.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/1/0439/0505/6920/files/expert_betting_tips_pro_apk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5303/files/panasej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1881/1552/files/4279029876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1588/9305/files/92579141318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1471/6572/files/cambridge_english_empower_b2_workbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4481/8335/files/82629096680.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_off00005908.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5908 4908 bytes
SHA-256: db99ca88ff650c795bca6d0cf1101240b956879870b6d0928afb06e09b367bec
font_01_sfnt_off000069ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69AB 9968 bytes
SHA-256: e12ad84b822d53017139101622599353e9e1c7ecb2c2c2585693830d7d245d4b