Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7eb7dd5ccc325030…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 11:13:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0ea84e8957cd04877f1d4cc9a0189e8d SHA-1: ca492d49d9364e071d27dce1f1221adce7b4f1e3 SHA-256: 7eb7dd5ccc325030363613a5b8fb3799713686b87f2721a70ced4363a102b99a
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirection and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site, potentially for phishing or malware delivery, using a lure related to an 'Ontario map pdf'. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=ontario+map+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.prettyandpinned.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739452/pazunokikoxituv-gomisav-velafozok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.americasbestchildcare.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738881/pizama_maloxikerutejeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.crossfitrochester.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814611/ccad86.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/1/0434/0023/3112/files/vididimikozabis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8752/8103/files/sawokusadavomuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8673/files/situravotebevafaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8983/6697/files/28607295569.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xaxigeruver.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3305/0779/files/rerorizanewivedenisa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pujofupokutesigitugut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6031/3768/files/kaxuriziputew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2401/3722/files/honda_harmony_1011_repair_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9537/4489/files/scope_statement_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/59526866216.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41718344304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1324/5848/files/javascript_simulate_click.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_off00005d38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D38 5004 bytes
SHA-256: 1251cde02560f6e29c08dfc0a7c9e4fc5417c5dbdcadcd5c532a318c42bae055
font_01_sfnt_off00006e25.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E25 10228 bytes
SHA-256: 7711d7292d2f6739690e570b611dc38e1c47c8fc6ead87d528a0744a5321f5ca