Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 72e2bee059ac5268…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 09:30:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5da69356fc29f993febca52b3a9d5039 SHA-1: 8f5fb47b77702666c4bed346865c9867148cf18b SHA-256: 72e2bee059ac526814060c5e77c74b402337416ef92ad29710141d256c8ce57d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and link farming, specifically pointing to a redirector URL. The document body, though obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and numerous Shopify links, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=calendrier+belge+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.teamveventing.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739928/4658341.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mountainblueharmony.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969628/ladokaparobuwem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thsprojectlead.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383747/pezawafojo_tidopokiduniti_nubawata_kaxulukibefeje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prometheanrebellion.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814353/sizurubopi_vexupoxofapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.padrepiogroup.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680905/1590527.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/76102764406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5752/1574/files/jupebewonutuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3484/4059/files/77295996513.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9371/1261/files/creative_design_process.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0422/1849/files/icy_tower_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2563/6248/files/47701313307.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5237/files/32768081902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/93173007515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6055/2085/files/26948897077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/bewurij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8595/4198/files/kamilir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8561/0654/files/dinodozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/berujixawajibexuxutuzogar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5213/0716/files/28573375167.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
🗂 Part of campaign: teamveventing.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000559d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x559D 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 54138b1b89d666637bc0acf7a23d4018430bb52755ac477e0eba93ce77172b31
font_01_sfnt_off000066de.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66DE 11908 bytes
SHA-256: 6ea24678c3ed06081c97bde9937a2db08ae36f956c270e282ab4734f384106c6
font_02_sfnt_off00008b90.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B90 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71