Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0f41721e1300e8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

96.0 KB Created: 2020-09-17 00:55:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 06579aca018e3385b98fa5cc42b8559d SHA-1: 4db57072689d92580b852fadce508768efa82d7b SHA-256: b0f41721e1300e8a2b265ce3340f1b04eb28ecd91208e6eba1022ab8f77476d3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a game walkthrough, which redirects to a malicious domain. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into visiting a compromised site. The presence of numerous external PDF links also suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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.club/wix?keyword=star+wars+the+force+unleashed+walkthrough+part+1 In PDF document text
    • http://livekareg.meadowsweetgrove.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070420/03ce43264b490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hoodstax.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453496/6471395.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rotarynewcastleenterprise.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384401/lunibobebemikof-panim-lubupovov-furuzaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.konajoanna.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816096/c9b5668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.leilotus.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164418/jaridodavovedog_wulus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eagletheatrecompany046.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739101/pasibisudopomowoluto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gapul.c21discoverycharityevent.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/795365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://135aa2bc-9221-41d1-bbac-75717afbb17d.filesusr.com/ugd/04e6f9_a446be04b8ba40dc8b57275a0bf06df4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://e09263a8-9900-4752-b250-3de66e789ca0.filesusr.com/ugd/b0c717_3ff9c94df59044d0b5edfad0c1d9ae76.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://4ed0c8d1-a404-4b10-a17f-21a574086112.filesusr.com/ugd/277b62_b3c9de7aa71e4199a6672b4b16158aa8.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a88119b2-88b5-4b4d-9ea7-7db0d76048d5.filesusr.com/ugd/2ac701_ae844ae9f2254e40a9e60bdd0327cf3b.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2961/1171/files/us_army_uniform_pinks_and_greens.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7352/8213/files/47925303489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4519/0821/files/epididymo_orchitis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/2162/3450/files/24068918138.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
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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00013b31.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13B31 5728 bytes
SHA-256: 1f548853c07e919b40d3891b07f885c78dff48b6623f1509315778fccbe7f7aa
font_01_sfnt_off00014ecb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14ECB 10308 bytes
SHA-256: 5fd7168243be6ae27ad4e486b8eec0cd71856ac0d5c9de5655a29db81bcff475