Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e594ba8ecd7501d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-07-30 11:56:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 34d7f21349446990de6722152182c3b5 SHA-1: f069d18c9d5d931bfaa9f2aede2e1cc6ae5fc3d6 SHA-256: 7e594ba8ecd7501d4c54ffa692feac72fab214ccc92387f08893d2fef5cd1fbc
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known redirectors and a directive to disable security software. The embedded content, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure for downloading further PDF files, likely to facilitate a phishing or malware distribution campaign. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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=catia+v6+tutorial+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.msurunningclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163705/3613414.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thinkingthroughdrawing.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775393/fires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.coastalk9c.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071137/fabuxe.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/1/0429/6428/7651/files/najutipivopilixutidi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4595/2408/files/1103165877.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3993/2064/files/gobidafawum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3345/1944/files/vodanipuzugatizonudopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8030/2240/files/wilikimasokusilenebebuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/vatidejifuxupujakuwuvax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7850/6909/files/85696409544.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8309/5459/files/bowinugem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5572/7260/files/fetovesuvobaluwatexofop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9640/8218/files/51189705649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2711/1841/files/43644448029.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3480/4375/files/riwojixolajojagavugaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4764/9429/files/zigibin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7680/3990/files/27539635985.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_off00006ee4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EE4 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 3246fab142426aee9bbf4f28b48fff6c05ac41719132fab52560382dc90e4aaa
font_01_sfnt_off00008049.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8049 10052 bytes
SHA-256: a9e96b15b2d87e02483d0bd7c36490565796b9c178b0c95d0aed61c052a46127