Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74b68963745dad3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 23:05:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d9bf0b6a7c1bba04c49440a745239bb1 SHA-1: f6b34a05bdfa4339375b267e7f8642ff6805a35e SHA-256: 74b68963745dad3c92b4abffae32dafd5a37f8c36f6ec6519257d98b0d8c9da7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, identified as a redirector for potentially malicious content. The document body text, while appearing as lyrics, is likely a lure to encourage clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous SEO-optimized PDF links further suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users.

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=mariam+khan+reporting+live+song+lyrics In PDF document text
    • http://files.camarillocommunitygardens.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/xixiwige.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.phsdbteam.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407958/682254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.areaokc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813851/530db.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northchesterbaptist.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379999/basirevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wipet.ugaswimanddiveclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874246/nosibovi.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/1/0431/2439/2087/files/xelonuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3455/0173/files/bafinowit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7809/0901/files/21297407255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5173/5448/files/vipuzerawujalotazunazub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9856/1957/files/86097038282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5638/8510/files/36245826459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6163/9318/files/68336367695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2670/9665/files/bhagavad_gita_slokas_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7421/6351/files/69_things_i_wish_i_knew_before_marriage.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006394.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6394 5580 bytes
SHA-256: 48156ed36a90130a768db0f8c01adfa56f357423ebf1b036e97db971c5651d67
font_01_sfnt_off0000767e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x767E 10352 bytes
SHA-256: ea5cc7b608565046b07c15c2a567ccb0fe3d5ba1246015bf554ec566ed4d088a