Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72050e823d7ed084…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:48:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 9448b5679fe4f9315a8bbcac6194b219 SHA-1: a05a0ddfcf955170c1d67ca48120600cc88fec52 SHA-256: 72050e823d7ed0848510a87ad8ff2a77d275d57ca292600dc5e72dc7859df869
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service designed to host a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to marketing research and includes the primary malicious URL. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is flagged for malicious redirector links.

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=marketing+research+techniques+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://pilijo.mark-it-pink.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398125/0242b30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nesot.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437806/gabulamid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alexarainewright.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606569/395464ca64.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/1/0430/3604/9571/files/application_letter_semi_block_format_sample.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3422/9406/files/non_verbal_reasoning_analogy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8850/3203/files/93887119246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2104/files/vumumijepasivababafipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7016/7967/files/houghton_county_snowfall.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8886/2614/files/4904997694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1460/files/94764644845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3577/7445/files/wuripefitudimepigad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6214/0826/files/82277836114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0219/files/eclinicalworks_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0113/4747/files/hash_functions_in_cryptography.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4599/4146/files/xvid_codec_for_android.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9890/5507/files/3004762782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7355/2028/files/fotixusijajesisom.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008126.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8126 5580 bytes
SHA-256: b7bd96f6c3af0111f244c1cacb0ed604bc7562262078d75e1cdbd046cccfed4f
font_01_sfnt_off0000941e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x941E 10008 bytes
SHA-256: 2ac7eac9aa3be0e50f553901d49d1fdcdeba13ef58f7fc5a5422b42066ae80c9

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