Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f53535639482756…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 15:48:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 00ac1e3487e89f5b7fdda06d2ff36812 SHA-1: 5d88cf76991bd5675a7d69503c710b9aee8e169b SHA-256: 7f53535639482756b99b38baa30c76c20b717f04681bca5033b0f2fd2787cdc3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites. The embedded URL and the document body explicitly reference 'marketing research pdf sample' and include a redirector URL, confirming the lure. 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/pify?keyword=marketing+research+pdf+sample In PDF document text
    • http://kodogojek.feliceabarr.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738666/pululit-girif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wellnesslifestylelounge.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302830/3467437.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pathlightwisdom.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453252/janabexagelokan_zobiju_bazadedivaberap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thebaldiemovement.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398515/gunasunape.pdfIn 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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38140624907.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9807/1450/files/organic_chemistry_10th_edition_carey.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9236/9823/files/84552936795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2951/8741/files/sevejubekamogone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9647/3749/files/arithmetic_progression_and_geometric_progression_formula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/pokujuwawezotufixadebepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1918/1978/files/country_code_593.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0755/6258/files/23987883019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9151/5797/files/20571019108.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8684/7905/files/85697040310.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9151/6826/files/vosoxujutofezeruzeletof.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007a6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A6F 5316 bytes
SHA-256: e250ad010db06746eea5b4e846cd8e2d791aaa37bcfa0d3e2958dc01f2a4e00f
font_01_sfnt_off00008c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C59 10008 bytes
SHA-256: ef67b671934d2c0cbcf7decb7f71f23d8a5b59e209ebc85fa6fd49f7e663ed1c
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE83 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c

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