Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 732edb234b6d363a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-08 03:01:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cf38b289d436820429b1f6408fd2cdf2 SHA-1: 6e4e1b022001789a9afe9eb66febda2956aff2f8 SHA-256: 732edb234b6d363a6527660fa13d0b81dd84f1c0f80fad56c99ed3d1907addd9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains numerous embedded links. Several heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, with a primary redirector URL pointing to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to potentially harmful content.

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=calculus+1+limits+problems+and+solutions+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.wilkinsartandcreative.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454102/mesadaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crossingbridgeslifecoaching.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969993/lapefiduzex_sakakenarimi_xibizem_bunikigeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teatimewithnaomi.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681783/6401340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muwebe.hrmattersottawa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/livewojipijob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.78thfrasersmontreal.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739996/tasuzijin_gesipel.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/1/0434/2412/0984/files/38026036252.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/periodic_table_of_elements_black_and_white_printable.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5511/9512/files/58999610997.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9460/files/41071030279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6599/7472/files/water_pollution_causes_effects_and_control_measures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1430/6467/files/piwironisenamozoxuxav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2466/1154/files/pikuturotesizijukifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4740/3168/files/44766779391.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/52376383709.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6931/7020/files/defuzezun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/furupokexopaxabisovijuwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0134/7226/files/juxesenazoxaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3050/2806/files/pokegasudumozererapa.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_off00006425.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6425 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 1dee87790d8006c4e17bec0ec2ed392d361b6c90bc525dc0bd94f35924eaccaa
font_01_sfnt_off00007662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7662 13420 bytes
SHA-256: 4e14c4056c39b37bd79bf86dd21a1cf3fa1b65d5a76d11e241bcc0f438437a36
font_02_sfnt_off0000a0bb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0BB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34