Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 75ddf48de10aba0a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 22:51:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d24898278494fed44ba538f5705b4be SHA-1: 471ab5d7b69cfe29e6380d72c467d2e6a44ca061 SHA-256: 75ddf48de10aba0a67c222eaaab56eefd4ed5dad573b44e166be1e471c4e14be
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service identified as malicious. The document body and embedded link farm suggest a lure to trick users into downloading further content or visiting malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=bhopal+road+map+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.tomsfordcollection.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070109/51aed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.markmilewski.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740256/879668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.1drop2creativeart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/4389517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.urbafresh.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606815/xisoxovazozo_tofuxetaxufa.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/1/0433/5783/1326/files/borelisax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2331/7662/files/xakajojogefagolalute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4556/1254/files/libekibepibawutumasero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7240/6179/files/xamibavagevifagorumiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kumug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5615/1190/files/sipaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0985/8984/files/rebomuwagapuwenudunurefim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0364/2007/files/zabubamofimopizobo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5997/9174/files/duzanowirefesizebivedob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0761/4882/files/mosesenasoradoxigegufowi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1783/7471/files/lidikigowo.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_off00005a73.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A73 4588 bytes
SHA-256: 13f93bb6ee1de86467a843c57f6f21524c0c95f0839b157cf06ad12301529165
font_01_sfnt_off000069f7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69F7 10432 bytes
SHA-256: fe6b839645981f5b1d12d54eee516111833fdd5552dbeba192e17d9ef3a5ab54
font_02_sfnt_off00008da0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DA0 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f