Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 867e746bd4aa1a19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 23:14:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0a37f11a1e17e0cdb4e2986fc600f849 SHA-1: f25f927e41ea13bbc6dd99806d77414c147c2d07 SHA-256: 867e746bd4aa1a19c62fb4c6bc767cb1fffb4b5cce5b605994e5d19327e6c1d1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged as malicious by an ML classifier and contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'meme template' and a URL that leads to a redirector. This suggests an attempt to lure users to a malicious site, likely for phishing or to download further malware.

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=hit+the+button+meme+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.animalbehaviourconsultantscotland.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407178/kukur-zetozure-zikufozin-zezutug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reedcusterband.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163666/de656b5cb928d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richardreuser.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681456/c336422cb4c1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jugesin.theopalexchange.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606346/xusalakovalaz.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/1/0436/2603/7411/files/area_of_a_circle_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7386/2821/files/68144447101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8734/0454/files/fomowesevuvevadubopejid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7967/9656/files/71025650389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7595/3049/files/football_today_xbmc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9604/7783/files/18204428365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7400/9753/files/27450691807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/7574/2370/files/79458606579.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6830/1212/files/dell_3110_cn_drivers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5886/4028/files/8080669768.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_off0000634b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x634B 4888 bytes
SHA-256: dcfbd67555500cd123342f7093cde26b6aa35bf00c3c5c9945a1f8ea939d309b
font_01_sfnt_off000073b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B0 10288 bytes
SHA-256: b971eea396608c35e246a9a8ff3f40a84528c062747eb0fdb41073cd58767c19