Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b874843b117c883a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-04-27 20:03:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1.4 (via Qt 4.8.6) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c2c923b3869514c09e2fdc9182ca3bef SHA-1: 0bdc24baf4a1c238a0a02010a7a9802f810496bc SHA-256: b874843b117c883ab93c378dfe9cd27839092ff8bf81bbf9ddfda63aa530f1f2
136 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to other PDF files with numeric slugs, indicating a link farm or SEO spam tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to academic-sounding titles and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent of directing users to potentially harmful external sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • 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 http://myentouragemusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380636/131380636.html#uniform+asymptotic+expansion+of+integrals PDF link annotation
    • http://sturgeonrock.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604300/xumimat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kingdomwealthcreatorsunite.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775471/wikazeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://molonlabearmory.com/uploads/1/3/0/2/130291474/3324609.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://affordablypricedphotosandvideo.com/uploads/1/3/0/6/130604113/111636.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://heyboopro.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130539763/miferolajitenowef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sscsusa.org/uploads/1/3/0/5/130543059/403606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://enbrighteneducation.biz/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740553/fuvasamez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://habibimodayelegancia.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872286/c1813.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://maisaengager.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776555/607168.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kreutingerpuppets.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378952/sinip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://time2focus.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776125/b53268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hanaresorts.com/uploads/1/3/0/5/130590338/vapeniwoni_finavuxevenuxu_bilugaluweke_jukuxital.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://redlinemobilellc.com/uploads/1/3/0/3/130313294/9475922.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://krisalia.net/uploads/1/3/0/6/130640172/pexibufixetik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn 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
    • https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
🗂 Part of campaign: kingdomwealthcreatorsunite.com 4 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e62.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E62 9564 bytes
SHA-256: bf9cb7e7ec95726aa8ca99927002332281af056d42289860465d1f97a60eb34e
font_01_sfnt_off00009204.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9204 3412 bytes
SHA-256: 722211dae55171361721b6bc65c025a27f6987d1232cadb74667564e97391665
font_02_sfnt_off00009dfe.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DFE 16268 bytes
SHA-256: 2dfae6fc2d4fd2355130e03c74659db8d76860e400a96a4b47156ef5cb7f2f89