Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 87e678231affb9f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-02 15:49:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3cbde168a92d4df67b516d7ffe2c6311 SHA-1: c6062f4bda36803ea97d08f6f15cdde28c24a403 SHA-256: 87e678231affb9f5ffdc5c67aa5a24ef9df8f628df6e53d397f6d0cc377e81b8
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to a known redirector and a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. The document body contains a call-to-action phrase and a URL that redirects to a malicious site, likely intended to trick users into downloading a payload. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=convert+xfdl+to+pdf+online+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.chellesparklycorner.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739991/3c27d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.perfectlyimperfectperfectionist.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857114/witulufelagak_puwuzowofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.clareungerceramics.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740249/febumutevabunu-tuxixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mintmarktogo.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740580/63834a37.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.freshskintattoos.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381241/vajevam.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/1/0431/9051/7917/files/zutazakabetaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4602/files/fumosakevo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2158/9913/files/59642769099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9513/0266/files/cb._nav_run._drift._transit._foundation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3059/3192/files/greed_machine_isaac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2596/4949/files/85259776406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0029/8648/files/dakexubudepizamofotoze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7699/1653/files/assassin_s_creed_black_flag_multiplayer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/multiply_strings_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7922/7810/files/96439048196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1609/3849/files/28542845959.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/safopasiwimilividiteme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2175/4787/files/wuwomipokoma.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
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006bbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BBF 4680 bytes
SHA-256: aaa2a79829146eb63884c97f13a431d99fb41ca6935fe9751153481bd624a526
font_01_sfnt_off00007bc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC6 10128 bytes
SHA-256: f887dff5f0c3f32648ea15fc4fbcc5dfe1a521ed39c32c4804fdb899a4bff19b