Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 714304da6bee3f58…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 08:48:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 96a86baab041119ed07a2e0eaed3d1ad SHA-1: 94ad2ba0697eb21299ab46936169132dc5611c0c SHA-256: 714304da6bee3f58b4335ccc31f92d1968e737d0efa48f51de12c6619b735552
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm of SEO-optimized PDFs, with one link specifically disguised as an "Alienware 15 r2 manual". This link redirects to a malicious URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector.

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.cc/pify?keyword=alienware+15+r2+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.lblhoops.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437750/075c8b5265f28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.liquidsunshinedesigns.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606644/6427307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.4compliments.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405951/659210.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/1/0431/8406/2622/files/99760581537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6785/9359/files/41915891226.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4456/8220/files/brche_in_dezimalzahlen_umwandeln_bungen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4431/6070/files/matlab_compare_strings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7865/4883/files/winutepadej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1451/9973/files/63442286729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6821/5716/files/xumulojovakaregusipo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4230/7239/files/44000114341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0409/2828/files/kasog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5621/7750/files/sexulotokone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5152/1947/files/93692771623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8165/4679/files/physiologie_du_systme_respiratoire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8345/4872/files/badolasenomuxilig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2345/6661/files/98767412830.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_off00004560.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4560 5044 bytes
SHA-256: 759b0d6ce2693fa174572289a1baeb38576898b8f23120a34a8db03119c2b01c
font_01_sfnt_off0000568b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x568B 8756 bytes
SHA-256: 408bc6c3bd315725a1a2765b36e0fdd9b41b3f568843611d5495a6aead75df89