Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 678efe83540c92c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 03:20:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 13a2ad813b2ceb21ca95ef61c9bc0751 SHA-1: 0e55a6aa91765778db38f251d85592cdb3889248 SHA-256: 678efe83540c92c5ecbb3c64efd6aba0c2c48ba6ed0c004e965e6c5941502130
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to SEO-optimized PDF hosting sites, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a "Bilstein catalogue pdf" and includes the malicious redirector URL. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure.

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=bilstein+catalogue+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jotigej.stickittothestigma.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382406/zozefefuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goodweathermusicschool.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302749/2115744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.destinationally.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408245/mobuvipo-vigamesijitufa-xatumitotifivod-foxuxakisopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zalanenaz.whatnowlifecoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874655/fujudezojewa-zegilomiraruma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.preservetennis.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969469/gejuxig_nazuwojilapemi.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/1/0435/3759/6575/files/accurate_scope_vanilla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/26512844574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4146/5244/files/bewonelepebikenim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1243/1776/files/8910956560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4609/2443/files/fezogamilarede.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/33859494821.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6068/1111/files/voyager_trike_kit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3298/4222/files/90221325465.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2932/3158/files/piguxujewixujag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7670/4664/files/jspdf_autotable_header_height.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9665/4489/files/balancing_chemical_equations_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8297/3346/files/57426121224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0223/8875/files/55900524806.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_off0000503a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x503A 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 82aad6a25fbd2f3276fd90f8c6de2d814c95747d9c8c0f440ab8c1f178a9132a
font_01_sfnt_off0000623c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x623C 10628 bytes
SHA-256: ad0e7649128fd087bde36ae86a3651fdf925913ddda3c2c5233c2118c7d27e9f