Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f7c588517448e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 13:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 946eac017f0b8c7be8001a188c850d5e SHA-1: 7583f4b045fe71a5a112af385bb75280e4cffead SHA-256: b5f7c588517448e7dae50c1cfb59befd1f4a470eb0bfeb7820a7002f76c70e72
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. The primary malicious URL is a redirector that likely leads to further malicious content. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL.

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=panasonic+bread+maker+recipe+book+pdf+uk In PDF document text
    • http://files.owntheearth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453539/busumabamo-nefurotosot-xigewonu-fojewem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cmefonline.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406448/389ed5007187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://didad.myecns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406286/4992760.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/1/0430/8510/3255/files/rajajufupirusolevizozul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7896/6686/files/pdf_of_beta_distribution_of_second_kind.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1311/9905/files/7295406042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0649/1797/files/advantages_of_free_trade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7007/0690/files/xazozubaxavuto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1241/5907/files/5313874879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9853/0202/files/42023250333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8225/2442/files/dosulasuruxeperugumopof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9812/8036/files/71115288787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5725/0455/files/38272885063.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: cmefonline.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004a1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A1C 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 4ca71a58459c3f62dfdbae32f7553ca74de76aafdeadb454ee2316ce4682f0ba
font_01_sfnt_off00005bdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BDD 9688 bytes
SHA-256: 1212fee84d6e2476b315f3252df2e61b6c469f15567039bbbcf904a38b032cfb
font_02_sfnt_off00007d46.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D46 16204 bytes
SHA-256: e93acd332f5893643511f4cefd38969ad5c744ad1b08842a788b6be7d277dd15
font_03_sfnt_off00009274.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9274 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333