Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 701f79cb2359b557…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:43:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2f67126b19a6a82f4dcd4a482ef55a85 SHA-1: ed9e83e9927c96d0acf8024d1e78562446b6d365 SHA-256: 701f79cb2359b55761900813e08d48ee8c1e6cf0aeab2c19c0b94046b1747600
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure users. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of numerous external links points towards an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=atomic+structure+mcq+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.beclewisfiction.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813906/a2c530e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spleitstrings.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379443/2425566.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thegradcode.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776757/8544377.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/1/0437/6533/4165/files/cantatas_de_navidad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0041/3856/files/68519377989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/64008431943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1125/2132/files/rivavedurawetosevutorum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/lirafaxezasubiwozedika.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rikakaxudote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/0757/9036/files/convert_to_word_farsi_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0803/2922/files/solasowusenaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0193/6033/files/audiogram_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7591/0294/files/benefits_of_bitter_leaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4340/4441/files/how_to_resize_a_layer_in_photoshop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9909/files/3000_basic_english_words.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B6 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 8ecc2caad292708f79c157d4cadde66be37f79ca04a68bff60514b16fb3e9555
font_01_sfnt_off0000776e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x776E 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 50178e0c72a63636814c4c885c22109cb67367875ad97bbb61d3ab2b2c85c0f0
font_02_sfnt_off00009baf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BAF 16288 bytes
SHA-256: bafa50524f78af093df95ed27ffa029f4c146f6d2e0dc7b3cd6745066db46350