Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878130ab60e5dfc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.2 KB Created: 2020-07-13 22:01:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 132dff136cf216a254f6a658a89319d7 SHA-1: ddf351d23b9457c7d3f5bd1a2f354efdcbff9579 SHA-256: 878130ab60e5dfc8b807b50d7422b633122525f08968229cfbdc75f4c30ddc0d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to redirectors and SEO-optimized PDF farms, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' strongly indicate malicious intent. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links are designed to trick users into navigating to potentially harmful content.

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.com/wb?keyword=nodal%20analysis%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.londonlivefitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856649/3598330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tectonichospitality.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070612/5949657.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.knottydesignco.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407539/8155872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://segokowiw.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/fidimolev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://desikamen.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/munopefixarugasorifil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bojodexiwow.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/rotokijowujuzot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mudopepomof.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/bowurusen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://natasozijum.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/3006246005.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sarukesap.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/27678046091.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ginirosidu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/zezakepofezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://meboraxi.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/92785561065.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5502/2234/files/webonubamovupip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2758/files/luxenetomelirif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zilifevuzumojewod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1607/7991/files/linigajuzipematedokemurar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30899714004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0421/4942/files/49964998047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/98629167596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sosivizugepu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/86341787882.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_off0000bb12.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB12 4600 bytes
SHA-256: 6aca2006452832233bc85422906be71ede9f1d9153874a3986b75c420871a290
font_01_sfnt_off0000cac5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCAC5 14124 bytes
SHA-256: 64509f046edffa8b1ebc825c0ef1061d6bb03624e6c3ac45b4a409af42f1a66b