Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95c9202dffa81a9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.3 KB Created: 2020-09-17 06:27:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 017d861d885199aea168fa5b397062d5 SHA-1: 5a699a9a0c111aa9203db967c9646f354139bdbd SHA-256: 95c9202dffa81a9f2189c8217bf0395de1fdcab3bf5e70a853d52091360f6671
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that suggests a lure, possibly related to a 'voyage of the dawn treader script pdf'. The presence of numerous PDF links and a malicious redirector indicates a likely attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites, potentially for phishing or malware distribution.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=voyage+of+the+dawn+treader+script+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://fukosanoj.kauaimusiceducation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739664/lowozokawiselajo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.boydcomics.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380814/janubukuxakogik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mamivawev.perrywinkler.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070109/4587415399e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://podababoj.grapholistic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775835/sulumokikinobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fugawix.fourseasonsrentalequipment.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874104/7752515.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goodcharamel.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695455/dededazabiruk-wunanijawede-kepumaxefizira.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jekowixin.1stclasshomeopathy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739922/8974536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://86dfe4bf-e8f9-441f-80d0-2e0f8dc4e3f5.filesusr.com/ugd/d775a9_f4a3aea5ca4f40aea6643683f3877a1c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8cdb9ce0-b9a3-4766-b7fc-3a935679c8c6.filesusr.com/ugd/ee6100_96206139080e44f5bf231cf1769ddb32.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://83a049b6-1205-4e4d-8618-b973a37055b3.filesusr.com/ugd/804ff6_2520d45dc3ed4d81be1fde056d71db57.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://fd670e83-64cf-49b6-a11a-170cef5c5743.filesusr.com/ugd/dad90e_caeb67b9dd2546bd8ad5b6d4baa16c8c.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off0000ae76.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE76 5544 bytes
SHA-256: f44ddf0791ba8acc264400e8543b04cba1e7c6c166fdce17d08cd94ab1da9742
font_01_sfnt_off0000c16f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC16F 10140 bytes
SHA-256: 89f286b154c45e160c226e75f88f164acd1f0d2690ae56e724352c7e77d007f4