Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b227121075e93157…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 07:33:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 807453ebf5a579f4577a4f04d2395647 SHA-1: df71d42176ea005585ac7192bc3bca4779ebb004 SHA-256: b227121075e931578f16d593b77292621ca8379cb61224b68001d27c6e2e3341
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a personality test and includes the malicious URL. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking the link, leading them to potentially malicious content or further stages of an attack.

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=personality+color+test+red+blue+green+yellow+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dodsonmiddleschool.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856188/402e87cc2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pumazawuv.forthenrybuckskinners.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453540/waluvetuneribav-buwebajam-motepeziwakun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.doeverythingwithgrace.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969763/9e3b018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.klmny.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454459/1483729.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fofavag.jparnhamportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872225/nesojuvesetufub-vafuza-jetuke.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/1/0444/8894/9927/files/calendario_escolar_2020_y_2020_sep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2147/3691/files/catatonic_syndrome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0422/1849/files/zilodexipigiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6229/5714/files/mexexibonuwadawar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8266/1526/files/wodimis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4021/1105/files/nedefatisufawunimefiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2853/6744/files/45171801936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9436/8671/files/xakikefosoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2294/8251/files/regelegowigamolam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0794/0520/files/22864565878.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0912/0152/files/91692502413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8803/6505/files/71432101048.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7270/1095/files/3573290075.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_off00006c62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C62 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 4c1b4aec72f03ec75293bc21488abfba8f90c7416f7db3ab260ea94f70b71c8c
font_01_sfnt_off00007fc5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FC5 10872 bytes
SHA-256: 81a24f1ef91ce1958d08cfd5cb4dd2627995e7e39bb7d8652ca72e867be00c3e