Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b37424c5c761e1ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:00:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cc16a0a6abc1aad405225cb749267c8f SHA-1: 5cdec879bcd319cf35907011b646baa71825e64d SHA-256: b37424c5c761e1ef5d841d703bf529ac5512845c037dd1a9cc9fd6ba115a3e57
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation.

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=ancient+words+sheet+music+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.iriediner2go.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695694/619c08a21735d5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dobiedomain.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378950/sekitilupo-xepuzaxobubuj-gukofuxowemajid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kimajivo.milestonefoundation.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741555/5803979.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/1/0444/5303/6199/files/practical_celestial_navigation_susan_howell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9813/5966/files/77735118949.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/negonarufefozosaburesid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8918/files/tezob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/xubepikosigemeruxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/7321/9234/files/test_for_reducing_and_non_reducing_sugar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3075/8054/files/geguragexoviwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4975/3493/files/93574571819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/38684703775.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2225/3205/files/veweniz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4736/1439/files/vomovov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7694/3000/files/zopakazapidegamilopiguze.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_off00005095.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5095 5232 bytes
SHA-256: cc177ce108778d4f04c646821156e1f04282f4f8c1f5de2fa63d162b3c3a275f
font_01_sfnt_off00006250.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6250 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 2ab01b18c4311d5c9feec94dc5bc2b82ecfc1aa66e5aa0300e06bac40a5358d6

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