Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62744a9db5152258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 10:50:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 170d44cba91dd5415ce976c1e3c3dc43 SHA-1: 861f5a3496f4cd27b265cec8ba4e68e43335c437 SHA-256: 62744a9db51522583508016f7ce8b40936bdb300b0542217171fd76c50589dac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious domain, identified as a redirector for SEO link farms. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure for a 'Hiragana cheat sheet pdf'. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the heuristics point to the use of redirector links to distribute further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via deceptive links.

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/pify?keyword=hiragana+cheat+sheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.thejojodrops.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379380/9502968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jameshesla.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637658/ketafene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tijopaxa.sailingforthesoul.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/56872468.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/1/0433/4475/6901/files/29546538933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3762/9348/files/31681625432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5894/files/merolexokujego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5247/3252/files/nfhs_basketball_rules.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8580/7269/files/76043814962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2956/0481/files/70124451924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9964/4314/files/pi_hole_setup_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2630/9535/files/70026947811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1778/9862/files/ccie_security_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8910/6846/files/86371694973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/nadenep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5903/3752/files/rolovabepugowidanuwenupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/98893215816.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008704.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8704 5828 bytes
SHA-256: a1fbf42181f606dae5b40829edbd57e079bbf25c7a2104965cba9f3fa09c4ecf
font_01_sfnt_off00009b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B29 5344 bytes
SHA-256: cfe8f8cfde3f650375edbcbe1bee59c335330603ad4cc02987cb72b1beba7147
font_02_sfnt_off0000ad3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD3D 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_03_sfnt_off0000b5ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5CA 12500 bytes
SHA-256: 5a50a0dacf27b25897b436aa6c6905d067b83801e809b4d427c6a09d2dfe96a1