Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bf229ae3b14bc0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 00:23:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9b72bdf5ca7628eb86f920533fb98ce1 SHA-1: 441525410df0b5822306ccd84c0a764a22b5aab6 SHA-256: 7bf229ae3b14bc0f48e1f8d427b5cdaa650c3695345e517fc6593940066a0e1e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector found in the heuristics. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into downloading potentially harmful files or visiting phishing sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=filmic+pro+android+save+to+sd+card In PDF document text
    • http://files.tournoidevignoles.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856290/mabutimeparos-konakemit.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/1/0447/1003/5609/files/deled_second_semester_date_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0233/4104/files/akele_tanha_jiya_whatsapp_status.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2534/1343/files/ielts_reading_practice_test_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0994/files/tadipubab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/0831/9641/files/genotype_phenotype_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zodotuxufaliga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8499/7025/files/elementary_spelling_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0516/5216/files/73405928080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2459/4597/files/56306772076.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9865/1288/files/tewaviparirurorazi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4852/6246/files/pubem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7795/8822/files/candy_blast_games_free.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5660 5232 bytes
SHA-256: c501ca5600c16be594c520d01f824344f0469c9f8a0ca7b8237a2b05c4368692
font_01_sfnt_off00006811.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6811 10500 bytes
SHA-256: 40015aabe33a6f9b144669ed49103f5efb3908cf374564d3f332d41c26fbefd6
font_02_sfnt_off00008c0e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C0E 16076 bytes
SHA-256: 0b36605a6e61a74a7f8c2aef65bffbce38398019a9a977160a4dcabe0d880f8b