Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88d688ccee3c90e4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:47:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4491227f15457446a198aec885e5c5c1 SHA-1: 6a2b93295a49333b49186f9b8a7580048c797d9a SHA-256: 88d688ccee3c90e447a76d7357cfea88bd739eda0e417f21b9b4f21ee2745de7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service and appear to be part of an SEO link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect users to malicious or deceptive content, likely for phishing or to distribute 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.cc/pify?keyword=board+games+to+learn+english+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://losafe.helenaaves.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437657/petufokemugazebar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tetiana.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741099/ef6534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.norfolkbigdig.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437074/limutod_lobuleruxa_gogodoroj.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/1/0437/7133/0709/files/suicidal_thoughts_biggie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9353/9478/files/xizomiwavof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5317/0339/files/el_negocio_de_bienes_races_en_mxico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1702/files/litarulitidamakeku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tuwaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9105/8078/files/26231345457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4047/9144/files/duximasebifav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3311/6317/files/lawadoliwifatumen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9019/0248/files/13608064612.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0826/1287/files/balusunufetanamememutulu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/welevabogujobuladotamapot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5271/1586/files/95019375449.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xoxolesusoziviro.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_off0000632e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x632E 5504 bytes
SHA-256: 60fe61c4d83f0a58df2ca9e9b7a07ad6ae3e75a0514663cc6a83fa8a78fb7059
font_01_sfnt_off000075ba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75BA 10156 bytes
SHA-256: a2299f190ba8af280c696b131087dcb9c1df3ab08afc468ff23e7aa9b40ac390

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