Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85edd802b47d6ab5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 03:20:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6277957e541f83c51b8003acd6115a27 SHA-1: 531634f1b3054a5def1f11c8d552a106047f0fa4 SHA-256: 85edd802b47d6ab5fbc257272219062645ad239028e256f18d8225ad59d4bf94
202 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 redirector links and a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a redirector service. This suggests the file is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.cc/pify?keyword=bhagavad+gita+slokas+in+telugu+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://xesunava.raniyoungdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874254/beccbbf04de7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pernsfood.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873741/xofumafajozu-dopuripuxote-pimadiroz-vagolebapojukok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drmrosenfeld.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408204/c1bacfd92fb910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.edhiresolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681611/furivafukiwuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jcswainenterprise.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682585/bitebozeb_vakujajegozux_nefikeku.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/1/0440/7413/9813/files/jameson_capitalismo_tardio.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5479/1832/files/21157541400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3096/0549/files/89719867545.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4562/files/nimupometivuvefutibuxutop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5113/8715/files/25748554490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3905/5253/files/61243531260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1475/3189/files/catchment_area_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4642/8072/files/jedi_mind_trick_gif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kaxepetumikikexozifaxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7772/9432/files/10104683224.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0805/5720/files/xofito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1767/4656/files/dark_souls_2_titanite_shard.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8359/4917/files/agregados_petreos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gizuvesadumewagetikuxumut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bibekejufalakudogaloseja.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_off0000cbf7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF7 5380 bytes
SHA-256: c020472cff42873354fbb1819e987bae6b872911ae3f0fea4a714846db4262cf
font_01_sfnt_off0000de50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE50 15936 bytes
SHA-256: 7430a9c7f9c3e1084d5f24e060b126c95ad0bad1ddf82709d7521757b5d5c834