Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a4f312276eeed8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-29 17:53:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b96fa40981e95334279f6ee566c18281 SHA-1: 6e9daaf7216bbfac971f2dfffef5907ee98094a8 SHA-256: 7a4f312276eeed8a526b6659f0a60f4a2e638c4bbafd497540d37918140087f9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to a redirector service. The ML classifier and heuristics strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to redirect users to malicious content or phishing sites. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains the primary malicious URL.

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.link/wix?keyword=so+b+it+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99629299280b4f74b9c96dbba9db3d3d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9cb973119c11473c929f99e9e82a0979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_35847d17ca634e0f92ce52dfb6e6f35f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c0f4b80d85d444b39ac73b639e11c68e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a593f_33409430a650401ca3015ccfd3a0db82.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7093ddc8f9744b2aac5c360e0eaceeec.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d9df642da5774e1194a80f0934fb8a8b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_61462ffe63534f3cb1f39665c46fd009.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4423/9510/files/zilazexazefovoderu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/cover_page_template_for_report_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2775/9257/files/cicerone_beer_server_exam_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3826/8830/files/banking_and_financial_services_act.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6876/5848/files/41359485218.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1decf9_0f600a63e80e4c1cab05b23bdeb39d27.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b19415cbbbb84587b00bd428bcd33622.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_263d4133e17c4f9e95aaa360348159d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2e4eb4_57604c39516045efa782614ce9dfc0ce.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: shared payload a685516ede 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000063e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E4 4764 bytes
SHA-256: 40087c3af96c1a602294d41cdcc39047b449ae1ab5041e3fcfb84f44697fc006
font_01_sfnt_off0000741e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x741E 2476 bytes
SHA-256: a685516edea4a50178490b7b4b05e6d4a866d4131c35ca76c4c39d06c3ec2f64
font_02_sfnt_off00007eeb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EEB 6652 bytes
SHA-256: 5abdf685710eb6c1668a565a2a07735eed12636ae1a3ab75297efc78f60781a5
font_03_sfnt_off000090b6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90B6 10500 bytes
SHA-256: adc61209f5dcadd45425e9e0333dd2b4775627b7995527466ad7eb86a73bc81e