Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b136f8cd85d5fc8d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:37:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 712c33457ab233f29fca73ab11af9ca8 SHA-1: 134e2fdd4087448fd055f77561f021e11c203d71 SHA-256: b136f8cd85d5fc8d0456dfe85b2373e184c0953b8f1236cb53539e1f55b201a5
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the malicious URL. The presence of a link farm and a callback lure suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to direct users to malicious sites or engage them in a scam.

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.
  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=approval+form+1b+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.afchoir.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873732/jilubegafojegad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.farmsteadproducts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637273/zenufuko-kemorofir-wamokijep-gineri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cantonfitnesscenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606923/nokano.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/1/0438/5865/7430/files/57856855217.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8316/0995/files/lupazamorod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2729/9478/files/32244341294.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8281/3341/files/exercise_present_simple_continuous.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0835/8561/files/garmin_edge_1000_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2485/0842/files/21128372030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7304/4642/files/65089158113.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9579/1518/files/waziganemu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2816/0417/files/fusionner_sans_logiciel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9875/7538/files/98376734599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1848/8741/files/adding_and_subtracting_exponents_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7332/0600/files/1680341619.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
🗂 Part of campaign: cantonfitnesscenter.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000886d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x886D 4688 bytes
SHA-256: e520be1ab5662ced093e02b6b68806b9c13ea28fe031c0208b7ebd2359e3df79
font_01_sfnt_off00009853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9853 10600 bytes
SHA-256: 580a96be1d76a2b0c4f521dacb345dd8dedb2e7755776fc93e243e77285150a9
font_02_sfnt_off0000bc96.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC96 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230