Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 703be5cd429a5c72…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:45:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4555dfbe83b7a5c2b6ae06128063482c SHA-1: 568661a124b8ce1e081f44ec64993b66a139eef1 SHA-256: 703be5cd429a5c728e87a3ac2857a57fd6bc71aa23e35fd9f26c1d94b752f0da
210 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm, with a primary URL pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the lure 'Aissee 2019 form' and the malicious redirector URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests an attempt to generate traffic or distribute further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=aissee+2019+form In PDF document text
    • http://files.faithrec.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775346/lipobojaxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.legendscomix.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437984/2387046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5257/5394/files/velocity_and_acceleration_problems_worksheet_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/81398400424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9077/5965/files/9432230882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7097/9237/files/mesugoboxuzam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5149/1233/files/digikujomowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8125/2512/files/weezer_say_it_ain_t_so_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sopituwoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5778/3718/files/vizio_sound_bar_remote_user_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8133/4935/files/delitos_contra_la_administracion_publica_mexico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1633/9111/files/85001560638.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007197.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7197 5144 bytes
SHA-256: d90071a92fba6024b3ce19a94d572ea757dd279ae8d697e8f68a2bb29c2d2719
font_01_sfnt_off00008301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8301 10416 bytes
SHA-256: d0e95a2f91ce163f89dde17e1c92dc7e18aa1f217632a54ce89557f51e5c4422
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6AE 8012 bytes
SHA-256: 009159cd59ba8cad5eaf511ec027fa3d81ba9753243fda9e05cdb8ee025fb15e