Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bddc5b3550837b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:04:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2348ddafa3fdaf53e047cf3f75fb135b SHA-1: ff97966e6a85b7d098b5afc34a0fedd37d9406d9 SHA-256: 7bddc5b3550837b8a6a9f5a1490934101892e5b937dddc3c4af9bb7c1cdb2eae
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the primary malicious URL. The presence of a link farm heuristic suggests an attempt to disguise malicious activity within a large number of links, potentially for SEO manipulation or to hide malicious links among benign ones.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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/wix?keyword=chowking+lauriat+%25E0%25B8%25AA%25E0%25B8%25B9%25E0%25B8%2595%25E0%25B8%25A3 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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8411/8171/files/daffynition_decoder_algebra_with_pizzazz_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/5338/3581/files/guacamelee_skin_pack_trophy_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1757/6354/files/forever_living_aloe_gel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86372263330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_20cc7e4667424dc59be3dfd229417251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_95420d694e0a40de886ba18e1d17b003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f6b15135841943f7adcf568fb7d4e042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2d007_c1f897befd244cbdb1dab6ee73db223e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6154/2045/files/fatamejalibasuvako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6912/9372/files/bayesian_probability_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/51194308683.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e75fb7ffeecc407a85592424d02bffef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aee12_2c9ff7b067b14864b9cc10946454f7ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07625c_cdcf6579314840349264e164614501aa.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004728.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4728 4832 bytes
SHA-256: 3ca8785dcdd73f8c5f12fb201f10fdc3b703cbb083e99019e9fa3e0d77b1ad21
font_01_sfnt_off00005797.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5797 6604 bytes
SHA-256: d3ac8be9c5ab84e1837ccba55ec41e54e10f6aab8cb3208a6e84241790a288a2
font_02_sfnt_off000068d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68D5 7728 bytes
SHA-256: 3e1922c96494e667c0b4740bfd946b8c10b498e2106f7f320c16f045d7771520
font_03_sfnt_off00007e3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E3B 9912 bytes
SHA-256: 9718527194ab1777189b9bf6a3d05bc3bce436bad18eb54c5f76ebff65ed0302
font_04_sfnt_off0000a06e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA06E 16616 bytes
SHA-256: 7ab81ce3d92a9ec80982bbbf7df4378fdf9290867a146be245f32411f9d17586