Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79a7e4491f634ef4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 17:01:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 84fd6ab779fd633c74d25ea0da19bb6d SHA-1: fb80cdb083f1435eb0cc465fe37b160d1a9be08b SHA-256: 79a7e4491f634ef4b0a809cf66e2f81f7fd1eac0bb928a1e7bebebb81f416c95
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one that redirects to known malicious infrastructure via a 'pify' service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Armstrong cable guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination.

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=armstrong+cable+guide+butler+pa In PDF document text
    • http://files.curtsleague.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/mavofumefabefuses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getuzefab.kylespestsolution.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969600/zupaveki_xewogomes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gurovufos.ephrataeducationfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437361/5826809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://luvab.khylor.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695540/wikovikime_lumejewixug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lanternaconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398177/vokot_webafedani.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/1/0434/1222/6206/files/91501364877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1648/6040/files/31271316498.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1517/5335/files/basal_ganglia_bleed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3020/0991/files/rasidujazidurene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6170/6903/files/allan_kardec_livros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2074/2819/files/12494176719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8118/8003/files/zotulap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7187/1912/files/14323160770.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1261/0472/files/44703306230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6671/9385/files/jebijuxozilo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7015/3113/files/50307112595.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000676e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x676E 5524 bytes
SHA-256: 2b8807a86c4dc9098ad951b9bedd5b43400b611438ad132ed3531d6ce83a2236
font_01_sfnt_off00007a0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A0F 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 57586a87609db742c1fb1362fab6b6caf117849593ed40ff425d9145d215313f

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