Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ba01fb115aef582…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c6fab3f2577e7e9949a0bca6686d9a28 SHA-1: bf1a4b4f8827eb8f7471c8145d12646dcd444cbe SHA-256: 7ba01fb115aef582f6d017325c9393121ae263e4cef03bcd2ef8121f00a6689d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a known malicious redirector, likely intended to trick the user into downloading further malware or visiting a phishing page. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO abuse tactic.

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=arrays+and+strings+in+c+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cecilialanders.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/9453845.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beechwoodnaturopathy.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/golilawut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vigazev.nrichardson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775734/5e84bea9f090f.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/1/0432/7941/7504/files/tarefupedurivamow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9353/0526/files/kenwood_ts-_120s.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2901/8262/files/74690740261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2657/9610/files/nomoliduwizuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4062/8133/files/nazoxujatovumigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8249/0791/files/patuxuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4648/5672/files/guxojotupokosafubexufesib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3558/8770/files/78407151913.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jokopewizemaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5932/8662/files/nejijib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6074/8695/files/51182518283.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8768/1952/files/jedonalopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3469/8147/files/lugivixinaxaweputubazaka.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_off00006d7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D7D 4940 bytes
SHA-256: 6ef03595f4b69ca443068c6e989d5124068de4d3b5fbecde17ec1c1996da6387
font_01_sfnt_off00007e53.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E53 12932 bytes
SHA-256: 0d95ba43e44cb6cba9b51ffca259f5699c4e82fa962057a00f0d878fdcdc5a50
font_02_sfnt_off0000a84b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA84B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2