Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e99412ac65ad183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:06:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 44663e9f621bf308919263b76a0b121b SHA-1: 79bc6268e78b966a725be34a1e99aed16efdba93 SHA-256: 7e99412ac65ad183b2ea089e674c61d23d538e20d96a4409ca51bc1981989b75
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one critical heuristic firing indicating it points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure related to game downloads, specifically 'Destiny 2 pc clan'. The presence of numerous Shopify URLs, many marked as benign, alongside the malicious redirector, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wix?keyword=destiny+2+pc+clan In 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/1/0438/2549/6221/files/sahih_bukhari_in_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8914/9608/files/vadisasuzolefawekapebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9044/4445/files/xibogageje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8344/0033/files/97739386258.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7e6083_5230115ede3e4d3f9a227b0c0c2ee78e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4677/9552/files/23535340569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8334/2748/files/lajemenivimisufijufezom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/finawuwimexubetusilifi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0157/6604/files/torameposivogurirokorol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_1bee1c16dc6e40ed8982075d5438074e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f52ec25b35d0407d8f27524e9b91a89d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e9fc2_17fd098e24f14618b819b057b926f58c.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000689c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x689C 4744 bytes
SHA-256: 7469ce5a2a14ae8541910f6d79e3b72a139d01615351dd7c5c779c61da1bbfef
font_01_sfnt_off000078ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78CA 2052 bytes
SHA-256: d85b33c3f797a3b8644ef82fe00cc2c05692154eb2385c1435329cff54dc07ba
font_02_sfnt_off000081a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81A7 1964 bytes
SHA-256: 1d18534733479c870a78c46a90b83ed8aff410c3511f6838c5b83347f92bfa48
font_03_sfnt_off00008b01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B01 15392 bytes
SHA-256: 9d91d7538fcfce7920e32d5a63033aede44e9b236424f2e1c36882fa0a592e2d
font_04_sfnt_off0000bb3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB3E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176