Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 663ba745eb0c702c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-09-19 02:55:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3b91f21b6be465e5ddf15a75f47b6a27 SHA-1: b5399454c7932340404a56b8c28c33f00d4f64f0 SHA-256: 663ba745eb0c702ca09069ac278274727e2e0256457af9df4bb2daca0791abe7
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. The presence of numerous links suggests an attempt to obscure the final destination or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=birds+beasts+and+relatives+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://rovoxelig.splashsteamboat.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453526/fipesoja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.readwritebake.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740628/c53678bb2fd500c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://fe99b54a-b682-4740-9828-dc71e237d6ef.filesusr.com/ugd/529dbf_ccfb31305f0444cfbe6abc850d37d3ba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ca90a857-fbb1-4ccd-b147-cbbb36e8df06.filesusr.com/ugd/866690_4714ec18124c4945a11d56006e846485.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d0c2d09a-9796-47c5-9bc7-717a88088d12.filesusr.com/ugd/4f270c_2413acdf60b2473b8d2da0e311e14b0e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://426c0614-c600-4782-9f96-25da24244f89.filesusr.com/ugd/417718_6389997c7d234dbc928976eee10eeaf3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c4c74e02-2fc1-4485-a7fd-1b1a657cd3ff.filesusr.com/ugd/221eaa_44e6f22348bf4488926f34a935046b19.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d335d5e9-0305-45ce-b53a-0d914744b307.filesusr.com/ugd/cc089a_a196d22c4edd456a8c7b07259d105c73.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7e0e0390-7f8e-4470-b196-e607c9673d0d.filesusr.com/ugd/b7ab08_c586c5c9a7fe4dfe8baffaa4c56600e1.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://23eea41b-64d0-44ae-a216-03d787e5ec6f.filesusr.com/ugd/f55bec_2da0249cad49452ebd9cf5c46a051354.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a1cc6613-c221-4214-9400-929f79dd8125.filesusr.com/ugd/5dc3ca_c7ef757a5398414fb046c0e4bb066237.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1fd6ba6c-b7d7-45b1-82e2-40cd1a75eabc.filesusr.com/ugd/01e791_55294376ee5c4350a68d56edf1f5145a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f73c215d-d127-43cc-ad25-9b0af58ffc7b.filesusr.com/ugd/008a9f_99777931942048da8cfc87979aedb535.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee09fd7d-6754-4a47-aa37-cfc233ee5c54.filesusr.com/ugd/f34823_fcd0e4aed30b447a91f488a4f29e0f04.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e112f3d5-ebc9-4d5c-950b-0eb3298d134d.filesusr.com/ugd/7d2910_8808c65182c045d581200c5b9fb1bc49.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5b7c1fcd-8081-4a44-ab70-bd43bbb34245.filesusr.com/ugd/b7306e_cec8d7ea8d184ff49e24233176e5b6ad.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000079a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A2 5284 bytes
SHA-256: 2c539009e531a1d9c27b4bfbef86d373598494d1113a4945931a4f76bfcbb4fc
font_01_sfnt_off00008bab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BAB 10132 bytes
SHA-256: b05e7188f73eab029966902af44b9e5ddf757f3133259fc2443e318698af6923