Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80b5179ec313e419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 10:52:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 79dc65ed0efc4a0bee3c262171be5a6e SHA-1: 401f3531f773bf91cb3c26e25c931e848f1ee3d7 SHA-256: 80b5179ec313e4193b051306ceacd6f7a12cc9c5d502b743d299306672e1b3f1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of an SEO link farm designed to lure victims with seemingly legitimate content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links suggests an attempt to lead users to a malicious site or download.

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.ru/pify?keyword=business+intelligence+pdf+tutorial In PDF document text
    • http://jajuxeror.ophistorical.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070374/a555796a860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wufaw.talltaleswithpoppynwosu.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453177/fumapa-rezojavopugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.palmislandestates.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383398/luveme_vulube_roxobor_warosim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.holistichealthactivation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775949/54760bc7893880a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ashbournelions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453067/felevepidup_wamixuwogaxulub_zodagokamufite.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/1/0428/7194/7430/files/13554219191.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6535/1071/files/ajax_full_tutorial_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6138/6147/files/nelax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5129/3603/files/what_font_is_discord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gokibaleginasesomedusuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0776/9750/files/binary_tree_in_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4636/2523/files/20148640078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1153/8072/files/96_seadoo_xp.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5397/3657/files/advanced_reading_skills.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0397/7634/files/guitar_neck_diagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2878/3002/files/lutotagix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5778/3718/files/96_lincoln_town_car.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8951/7973/files/japutokumaxejijorewagikew.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
font_00_sfnt_off00006e8b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E8B 5256 bytes
SHA-256: 4e239a098988be7dded8b2b512886ec20b6f65b556e7424b7fef3915d89df6a1
font_01_sfnt_off00008070.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8070 10128 bytes
SHA-256: 9505416256e49d816a814562dbb2baa7139203d408142ed0da5aca62cf6b33a4
font_02_sfnt_off0000a30b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA30B 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361