Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67a178ac12dad5f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 03:03:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7bc166a1859d31e3f6f3de8eb319da8d SHA-1: 00683bbcda023ce4d3a67f4c693c0124e46411ad SHA-256: 67a178ac12dad5f19131451da7b784cd653c3ca9d83f0cc4c494c4ec7730425c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to a redirector service, which in turn leads to a large collection of other PDF files. This suggests a link farm or phishing campaign designed to drive traffic to potentially malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links supports a social engineering attack vector.

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.ru/pify?keyword=damanjodi+odisha+weather+report In PDF document text
    • http://files.caterpillarfoodplants.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710732/dirutagodes_dewisufowigen_toxif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.danwickman.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815190/c97acde4fd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nugun.timothysng.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606457/bc96a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thestrath.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695478/vuduwisimo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3391/1705/files/lipotokavuneri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4002/8325/files/azure_vpn_client_failed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/ketolobezurijanepuxosow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4392/9757/files/reticular_formation_meaning_psych.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9420/3806/files/39431510799.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7926/2615/files/jupibexojaziben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9119/8112/files/restrictive_cardiomyopathy_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9266/7544/files/sosedulalilesotonobiwimep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8853/files/7191771223.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: danwickman.com 7 samples

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68C8 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 73517e4d333b3f52ba934e48e7a2fcf1aeee477855594eeb6178be6e501a652b
font_01_sfnt_off00007a18.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A18 10500 bytes
SHA-256: b281a7cda7e0631b4f057dccf8875cfe86e792a83c00412bb999c0147d40b4c6
font_02_sfnt_off00009e30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E30 16164 bytes
SHA-256: c41fc46809d2260d2d1a821cef6bb00dae560fdbad380da94a93f29d012df54e
font_03_sfnt_off0000b345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB345 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f