Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 676b7ca1383311ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-09-17 02:09:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 033ed94b75a16969c8b7b3d13174ef3c SHA-1: 14cb27901d39988257da395cfff57ed33701dd88 SHA-256: 676b7ca1383311ec8882137d69a6224ae9ec3f4b1a21202ccd7256d3847380dc
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links pointing to redirector infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=python+vs+small+basic In PDF document text
    • http://files.cuastt.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398591/9247193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.veljre.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409037/manepitejug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kensnowphotographer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775588/bafolegemagokexif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://24353d1b-6f74-4dbb-b253-891c29c5a8f6.filesusr.com/ugd/70e7d4_161000755c3e4688b8023683af4720d5.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1a068b3d-0def-492f-8108-a593fbac1533.filesusr.com/ugd/234f58_74b2a23993c04e719e6598b03d6ee98b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://bab55eb1-1d98-4bd0-bfd5-6396c9e60edb.filesusr.com/ugd/8c5bc8_cc622140f1344721a54ff7fb512c5e13.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e09263a8-9900-4752-b250-3de66e789ca0.filesusr.com/ugd/b0c717_3ff9c94df59044d0b5edfad0c1d9ae76.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6161/files/oxford_bookworms_starter_sally_s_phone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0467/4727/files/poxesuveginuteva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6709/7756/files/19306530895.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2627/6775/files/ielts_writing_task_2_answer_sheet_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8961/7311/files/fumabisemon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6673/7311/files/febrile_neutropenia_idsa_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4758/1856/files/50196977086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0467/3430/files/volcano_box_driver_download_for_windows_7.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
🗂 Part of campaign: cuastt.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005fac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAC 5244 bytes
SHA-256: a535c44619f414931b48e6f904d6c2139699421727997b76ec88075ed61b637d
font_01_sfnt_off0000716a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x716A 10136 bytes
SHA-256: db69247276189d1383d2ea3d768ba9471222567890a8fc82585bc49f6ebd3282