Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ffad71486031457…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:38:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 70d574ebafa9ca297221c48a310370dc SHA-1: 34e39f8a4fbae2e31688d8e9ac24191c7a37566e SHA-256: 7ffad7148603145785fe976a51a518dd23295d32f1cba8f552a720a08d0a717e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirectors and a link farm, indicating an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and heuristics confirm it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body text, though garbled, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics and IOCs, suggesting a phishing or scam lure.

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=7th+tamil+guide+2019+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://vuroroxa.yoyojake.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380771/sowup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lumorul.bonvistomedia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407558/0f8f687aca6a49a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.equivistacoaching.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696111/polumazub-wumaf-gogunoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cleftstrong5k.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813526/wugelojuzitevip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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/1/0441/0467/9576/files/time_lapse_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4578/9600/files/kalagobexud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1700/2405/files/21756056103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4111/9653/files/sql_query_tutorial.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6534/files/99962830610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4071/8496/files/interview_questions_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6312/2843/files/dupifiketaresofax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3714/5753/files/attaullah_khan_songs_free_videos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6286/1730/files/98141160141.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7478/1338/files/redovamomavofowajoduguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4693/4430/files/ncaa_bracket_spreadsheet_2019.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00006806.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x6806 10372 bytes
SHA-256: 57b82d40b6fd39ff4c8bf266767eaea32de90c89afb0eab5a1fa23f5bbb692cf
font_00_sfnt_off000054e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54E7 5648 bytes
SHA-256: dc1bc5baf146f96319318eebc27e2b7cbbd165698ccf0e40a01cea74b63897bd
font_02_sfnt_off00008438.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8438 9844 bytes
SHA-256: 3746aa5b5985d2d830fb01e5c1620b10b88939dc480015a1bea5ddb063405cae