Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 792b04af64cf61b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 10:31:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2d912d3164a59af529b25d254f4ee8a5 SHA-1: d85cb169244c8d00cc2e4a0543ba04904302d83d SHA-256: 792b04af64cf61b8c52495d188746d8e502c176ebc61dc3f46eae8e26bf22f19
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the observed malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be luring users to malicious content via deceptive links.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=ncaa+basketball+rules+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.orizoncenter.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380354/79b414f8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuton.carrotflowercreative.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857445/4627e2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.unionpressalters.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/wipixen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.artbybetsybird.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452867/26af613a8e5576.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xigidewepiwunabifaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4276/7001/files/7113668007.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6896/files/24601965863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2961/1171/files/xizirafegarokovagusixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8517/5713/files/bezuxosisekogedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/intel_business_strategy_case_study.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9770/8957/files/chilton_manual_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3732/5462/files/xodawufogujatujusexoxanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0842/9977/files/what_are_news_values_and_why_are_they_important.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8903/files/41803108582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0369/9615/files/tepeziranikeropilalorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7007/0687/files/unistd._h_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5820/7643/files/how_to_make_colored_glass_minecraft.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_off0000fa1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFA1A 5324 bytes
SHA-256: 6d2fa2013a508c006ec79a88906cf50cddb2d13e99e629d33f62da3fc213f611
font_01_sfnt_off00010c45.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10C45 13088 bytes
SHA-256: 8eca8ff4f03bdccea685abd923b8435208eaf631d05537262db894a776e65b17