Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e5fd3776cb66633…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.3 KB Created: 2020-05-15 22:59:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e68d272bdb38f2d2adfaf8665bc0d928 SHA-1: d5ad4dba3f5295dd7e7660435ce1abf5067f6e17 SHA-256: 8e5fd3776cb6663311226ab129496f9d2daadbbb32555b0d81d2386c82895305
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links to external PDF files hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm or redirection scheme. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs that are part of this link farm, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to direct users to these external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9957

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://tiffinindia.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814976/130814976.html#canon+in+d+chords+sheet+music PDF link annotation
    • http://aocolum.se/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738566/jugomem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://janibotanicals.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856257/1c066902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gotothaveitboutique.com/uploads/1/3/0/4/130435509/a092b623992368.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://campbell-france.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130620627/4679721.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mskenny.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384599/10364daaca.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://personalizedengravedcuttingboards.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130639678/pexozoradofivif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004f64.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F64 11720 bytes
SHA-256: 327a33234813dca6767b2f6aaf24c1548e64bdb151f7502abf937b75e31b86f9