Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 62855bf916eda078…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 15:16:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1d16b3196f2f79dc7ab4d9f2e25eaa76 SHA-1: b8c842dec6b0e0e502fd8b6bb40b10343e7bc716 SHA-256: 62855bf916eda0780d03d65eed8dda50ee0ff76e20e448b07da6385a7cc48948
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector service, which is a common tactic for phishing and malware distribution. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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.cc/pify?keyword=calculus+early+transcendentals+11th+edition+pdf+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.galang-kangin.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814078/259e869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.themessageofnabiisa.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606284/e5dd96afc57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wilcoxwellnessfitness.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681560/lefabuwubi-weziko-falase-tisev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.heritagepumps.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606291/vimavunaz-potaviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vchschool.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454950/rivibano_kavinexogotovap_musozujabigako.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/1/0438/7959/6187/files/all_short_form_and_full_form_of_computer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0932/5730/files/98612062861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/gujudofabeso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mofofuledezenededur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1221/7241/files/pinoy_tambayan_123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0505/8976/files/96364094975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1797/files/autocad_clip_frame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0198/4662/files/active_and_passive_verbs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2255/7082/files/kanusixopofogot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2132/files/naxajapibukijivadet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xibirinadinabamagumib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4639/6326/files/27879072464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7355/8935/files/fetal_development_week_by_week.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_off000059e1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59E1 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 761767e256b6ae32d96257e8245bd6ba60b032582085e405b0f656ea79f9043e
font_01_sfnt_off00006bec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BEC 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 4c3b9a7af705936e610d8bd9e4c005674f44824de20e9261e920d15c2cee053b