Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 694fe5b627d0de71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 08:29:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 792c5c8e01c8e9964b0b22c333ce533c SHA-1: 7ddcab79b4ad7d7e4527c4ef34c3ddb46e2caf86 SHA-256: 694fe5b627d0de7146976a068072f3f21b6df720cd79b2103750d4a4994ad54e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one prominently redirecting to a known malicious URL. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure using a 'sustainability report' theme to trick users into clicking these links, likely leading to further malicious content or exploitation. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic.

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=sustainability+report+british+american+tobacco In PDF document text
    • http://files.cinemakomunisto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738512/xasujovugega_sibelawokiwig.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gujogu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/xevilekebixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2512/9894/files/pukumipuzimobojigokezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37237973095.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8230/1094/files/muwexosafuketagu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5501/4298/files/tusawuvek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5737/files/91895985900.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/adenovirus_replicacion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7278/2489/files/mesibezidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1699/4466/files/29842996953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3263/0680/files/likuvowazexopomajodegim.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_off00005f8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F8C 5520 bytes
SHA-256: cc3c527f11098bd51dd7f036632b6b33902c31a209c8235481e8dc12ea4eba3d
font_01_sfnt_off00007215.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7215 9976 bytes
SHA-256: 5cea4087b3118afefd057e13f397b30732461df19138e9b1cf36029897ad7578