Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 701e866e40430d4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 07:53:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bbf30531be061de0e3119a69d43ae4ee SHA-1: 8be83c704ce6dd555afc0802899da3f95d8c5ea1 SHA-256: 701e866e40430d4c06c13150ef2b4e83a42247552f3abd2549cf66c00a0d4746
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service designed to host phishing content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. This suggests a phishing campaign using a link farm to distribute malicious content, likely aiming to trick users into downloading further malware or providing credentials.

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=s+letter+images+pictures In PDF document text
    • http://poxajipel.alexlanshe.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/a25cfa2ababd6ad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ironstoneconcours.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406650/c63a72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tracichee.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606111/vageves.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/1/0440/3704/6422/files/weather_yahoo_com.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2969/2577/files/juxuzupis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2873/4375/files/third_conditional_exercise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8020/3944/files/1332251121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9620/2661/files/agricultural_production_economics_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2794/5879/files/iacopone_da_todi_laude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2338/5247/files/amoeba_sisters_classification_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5235/2156/files/descargar_certificado_de_secundaria.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6211/7788/files/63304001530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mejamuzeditika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3067/3565/files/sigozapoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6775/3116/files/megunuwatagonotivanes.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_off00005d0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D0E 5356 bytes
SHA-256: c387f24fc4ed28441197571be2a5d6ed2a1b743d130a7af69341ae35e2ee2e2e
font_01_sfnt_off00006f2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F2A 14592 bytes
SHA-256: a1ff2525f5bde82797b1788e4bae8f2019d93daea90af7d17f021848ce0bef3f