Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7be11f6319691aa0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-24 22:44:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f53519a94a26696aa267464109869aaf SHA-1: 6834358d3a7d075ec0bdea3263bf3e9fd0f98b3a SHA-256: 7be11f6319691aa079b99b06cef83167a19434ab265da24f3b304ad51b30d93a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirectors and SEO link farms, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The primary redirector URL is identified as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the lure text 'American billboard awards 2019 performances' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting the intent is to trick users into visiting the malicious site for potential credential harvesting or malware delivery.

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=american+billboard+awards+2019+performances In PDF document text
    • http://jamaj.theopenbus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683138/vamusedejagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jizekad.wikiscreenplaycontest.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438216/wojinotizalej_fuliraz_pedurimubitux_tugujoleto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.whitneylawrence.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814586/bc71d2a6944df.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/1/0427/6856/4380/files/xeretapenobobope.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8121/0787/files/27634190108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5753/5390/files/64880177611.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9623/4400/files/83875833809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4707/4464/files/thermodynamics_cengel_7th.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70686619693.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1518/4277/files/kaleido_star_sub_indo_mp4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8258/7039/files/edit_text_file_free_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kusamusa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6513/9354/files/aquage_transforming_paste_4._6.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_off00006786.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6786 6004 bytes
SHA-256: 9b36debd320d5e18ac7a560e97f8b5b1ca289b83a1691fc00a61eaac6706c011
font_01_sfnt_off00007be0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE0 10248 bytes
SHA-256: 79bfc3a02830aad41a5c899632f75df20c9ea98452a8617c77961d954e68bd00