Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 722cd97437f77884…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:41:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 86f5e585845376e8cf99b03439a6f217 SHA-1: e3c9d56964ad32747bd8bab07eb445ca22a32d7a SHA-256: 722cd97437f77884fd2292116620334b01ed90c0dd43f17621a86e3046d6a088
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains a lure to install a browser extension or update, a common social-engineering tactic. It also includes numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service (https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=template+literals+in+javascript), which is indicative of a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the assessment of a malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=template+literals+in+javascript In PDF document text
    • http://mibipazux.msnlawoffice.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/8328757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vezet.livolivo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437079/8477288.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/1/0430/4066/9849/files/fifa_15_soundtrack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1057/2967/files/lutetamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7550/9155/files/36734454148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3794/0117/files/factorio_high_tech_science_pack.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5433/3093/files/70123525362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/3759/4524/files/57196431553.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3097/files/english_thesaurus_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0379/7913/files/vinemebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5804/4827/files/wewuwulodurer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2224/4250/files/craftsman_multimeter_82141_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2774/files/61959683920.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006102.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6102 5164 bytes
SHA-256: 800d9bb6ba3c9496a6b5475fd7cb99f119d3211ceb4e3e68dc04fac0a75f6240
font_01_sfnt_off00007275.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7275 3120 bytes
SHA-256: c9b5c4904a063eda2fd006e21c0d11b7d9e09ba17605c18bcc17455d537c1e8f
font_02_sfnt_off00007efb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EFB 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 853b055ac26b311ceae19cd9842a227d66df8f6c4ce0981eb31a6b53aca5081a
font_03_sfnt_off0000a392.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA392 16076 bytes
SHA-256: e2237bcfba2ad8a8c6238a86fe0fbf220db2b991d1f402b1dc0856d9f6c5f988