Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67aba3d4f23c4b47…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 22:29:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 49522255371713955794ab875ea62f2a SHA-1: e7f7ba4d28620c3ce651a0c8aa1ad6614318c3f4 SHA-256: 67aba3d4f23c4b4790545cb0bacc385545fb0666d5e830d6fe50ac24064ac8d0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document is designed to appear as 'Us fda gmp guidelines' to trick users into clicking embedded links. It contains a large number of links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure known to host malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=us+fda+gmp+guidelines In PDF document text
    • http://lotujof.stonegatekilleen.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/8c4fc9922eda289.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meownisland.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636655/89e592a39.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tesar.veingoods.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/luralolu_fepalemejeza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.longosfinancialmarket.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710704/b3a8520aa3b2c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.seewhy.info/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381374/7598578.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/benivat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4098/7543/files/95019159724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1932/7896/files/bidalirufufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2838/0839/files/7128910296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9751/3381/files/62630178998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1384/0793/files/fagegaxapezinabom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5864/1561/files/how_big_is_dauntless_pc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7508/0087/files/59637337571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mirogorozizodixomalejog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2721/0144/files/ielts_writing_task_2_samples_academic_band_8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9919/3501/files/30505128709.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_off000074e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E0 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 2be28aa25fa640a69134762817467360a23a15ad7795acea156029dc7f8f6a8c
font_01_sfnt_off000086b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86B9 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 81d9ca2ce9b3667aaceff98ea4e73d5175276a557a79dd2aef097ec9ae749348