Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 715bb904a19a22a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:56:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 934a1e0c1cb31110a955ea785e6909d9 SHA-1: 97e628d3d75c990772090067ed45542a8ef411ba SHA-256: 715bb904a19a22a7ac2728cbf49cf74b2c5bab9bcc5564c128c142d4f331bebc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and link farming, specifically pointing to a redirector URL that is part of a known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise a malicious link as a benign document. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=voltage+divider+example+problems+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sallysweetland.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438249/e377953a8cde1ef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gopimox.holywellwalkersarewelcome.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/jowazal-dojafozeriw-bitok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sonurida.floraskivington.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738714/a0c22be39f798fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9243/4326/files/68841738392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7202/8823/files/4005054265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1938/5502/files/tusofawakusubupereboref.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8622/3262/files/33690406468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4482/3452/files/types_of_buying_behaviour.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4580/files/xozapunefemaxevadukuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9243/4326/files/tafilalezitozogowire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4551/7469/files/94213655039.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gegexovikorojirokelaxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8386/6018/files/47566522437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9431/7981/files/busifafelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1057/9865/files/73449335042.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_off0000ce62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE62 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 28da84d9e75294fbcff3052881d231ed2295ad97e04836ef2ccacbf9e9fc4087
font_01_sfnt_off0000e053.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE053 11544 bytes
SHA-256: a8afc6d5126e4673cf965b6f63ae4d86f4bec9b87d1b4812d1eaaf9b3959042b
font_02_sfnt_off00010614.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10614 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f