Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77206e69fa99db46…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 10:09:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4734f63dfd7c7e74a38aeb8a00207421 SHA-1: 10ea0471bc8cc4a3f584d5a8efcfb3bf9500808e SHA-256: 77206e69fa99db46ca9986bd8d8e404272b38dc819d924d6b9388493f66ba86e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to financial projections and includes the primary malicious URL. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on seemingly unrelated domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=three+year+projected+balance+sheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.sanmukyuu.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606533/busunijoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nujewod.peacecamarillo.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683169/4822207.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.annakscotti.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407918/c15973e3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theskinthatburns.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164534/f66e7e2f6bf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mnoboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636990/xipakubiga_xalosusat_timaziviwuri.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/1/0430/7235/6505/files/toxisovaminifabojikiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/aftershock_movie_in_tamil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2746/3324/files/bexemonepaxiwiledaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6352/files/vomadid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7622/2114/files/calendario_escolar_castilla_la_mancha_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1125/2132/files/73506220998.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9897/1038/files/xefobarudevafowaxanowak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7685/9544/files/botanical_names_of_flowers_with_pictures.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/carcharhinus_longimanus.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_off00005fd1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD1 5428 bytes
SHA-256: df8094459f96df91275e88adf8ffd00dfd36d3f590d8ccd3c8e3b9e349022ea9
font_01_sfnt_off0000723f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x723F 10804 bytes
SHA-256: 8b6c81ab4838d3de619a49b57562b5b0adea304b484ff8bdaf099faf2517bf18