Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1c2b64c8ebab5d8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-07-31 05:52:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f5f456c80c90e600f324ee0e2b55de7a SHA-1: 60144454777e3cac5a8d5c1a00164531dcec4b8b SHA-256: a1c2b64c8ebab5d8b883b9cbcd109f95b34276adb8fa78cab3427f1baa6b1bc6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to 'parliamentary privileges and fundamental rights'.

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=parliamentary+privileges+and+fundamental+rights+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dermatixclinic.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969960/parobor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mysticmancreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968926/mazabaramagixer-bobadowoseka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.loumurreyphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384383/ralusamep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.witeaze.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776499/b587cf157263.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.breckenridgeapopka.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775518/7984905.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/1/0435/3222/2615/files/lasigere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3464/7445/files/gowavikexonedifafosanujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7850/6909/files/famufoti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/mevimas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6616/2341/files/23574745610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8757/4678/files/sumazerevila.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0757/4179/files/dimox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/jobijaledatuximisufiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8180/9558/files/mabodubunibexiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3781/files/dezisi.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008720.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8720 5392 bytes
SHA-256: c512ee31d5cde558cefe27d40fd9511551fb29b93a5504f44f02df9783673f57
font_01_sfnt_off0000994b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x994B 10112 bytes
SHA-256: ab2db1823c9b0ae0aa6d0c8fc284a6017679679186e4b7a6cad883094f051429