Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9671769b8d85fc19…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 23:27:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 440a46701576977b855d024157cca142 SHA-1: 5ad1477aefbbe63bba596bc63d8466f6ae9ae618 SHA-256: 9671769b8d85fc19b501fc74eaccffb2452084439c437d0792f3d44adb46d27b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM indicates a mass external PDF link farm, suggesting a tactic to artificially inflate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a phishing or malware delivery site.

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=theoretical+naval+architecture+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.grantgarrisongolf.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070362/vunuzegifaz_pajoguxi_jolevutoxum_natilolojibox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.antlerbakingcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482958/bavirowudizeguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.searchlc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856347/duxixa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.explorestanton.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453216/6741733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2220/5607/files/xifexuzubow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7054/6335/files/73272376863.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8820/7254/files/86232976279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5706/1788/files/93198373975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6127/1959/files/66654371426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3320/6682/files/brosur_kabel_nym_supreme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9835/6392/files/14807706534.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4061/3286/files/96504168154.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xakisone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4489/6917/files/rv_comfort_zc_thermostat_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1460/9303/files/27012530038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5486/6333/files/468334496.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9199/3500/files/91117629319.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000077ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77AB 4956 bytes
SHA-256: 7a04e469f12978615dc62fb1091f4e06b7e9868ce1df4b2e62cd5fa2e7e7dbeb
font_01_sfnt_off00008881.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8881 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 9c1d7c0c03c33b3e1c5379de3944f83b93af1e8ef7d1d64172695ed1188359d6
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab2c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB2C 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176