Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98662acfabe122f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:20:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 576d7f65dc5b4d7e2d537e5e6e28363c SHA-1: 64281d662c2185da7a58c41664adb7553da870cb SHA-256: 98662acfabe122f97f6cd6b1993be7b4e464f61f5b3add2f8043be8cbfda3d3d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers this heuristic. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive document title, leading users to a malicious URL.

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.com/pify?keyword=bartleby+the+scrivener+t%25C3%25BCrk%25C3%25A7e+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.baitboatkit.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872054/6eca82a07a99891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.constanzohistory.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858044/8904037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.motivationalmowing.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/7673697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elisabethlagrone.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303270/tusexop.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vuxevitilikibuvenimomabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4593/6534/files/31604987781.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3638/5175/files/oceanofpdf_new_site.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2761/1300/files/516399124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7260/9686/files/18756978701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6219/8425/files/zawudubomu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wawufomujemozinabewa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4216/7194/files/petsafe_in_ground_fence_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1937/0659/files/razifibegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1248/8343/files/27446675986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5450/5882/files/instagram_video_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5337/5897/files/89078549757.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_off00006376.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6376 5640 bytes
SHA-256: 69053ba6373f4b2122f1361aebd8f951fff2ec0e9e2dbf27e9c45cd5554a73f8
font_01_sfnt_off0000765a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x765A 11656 bytes
SHA-256: 75cc3c68619935cbbc13d119deb2cf4f89d1930ee07fe718c27037421fd6aa62
font_02_sfnt_off00009ab8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9AB8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e