Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8b87d7c40bd7a4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.3 KB Created: 2020-07-29 06:23:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 04a6cbf78d874384347c0a57fe7cd2ff SHA-1: 39b2042491dd45048aedf556c5e935230d2d9ba2 SHA-256: b8b87d7c40bd7a4a3c5ba24f38a4245816e45cc007af5aa17c3e3c4741e3edfc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDF documents from web content. The presence of numerous links and the redirection to a malicious URL strongly indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=wdfw+hatchery+escapement+reports In PDF document text
    • http://files.holeybuttons.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384127/175992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.turnerchristianacademy.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682239/dofirawosefalofugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.madonnaforinspiration.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070561/8da74ae57f01d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oetprep.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454024/boninojavugesiwa.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/1/0429/8981/3909/files/vokedozepojagoxeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3467/3305/files/luxurubewabugelan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0237/8915/files/petumatogobe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0278/1083/files/ketitakibepexolewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9431/7981/files/semalujosavomijazibawudir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/zoligigirugozezifuwiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9757/0980/files/78723806790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4223/4791/files/14654466229.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9946/4611/files/38215186827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5542/3383/files/jikujojegava.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5769/2320/files/mamutezejimof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2755/4723/files/99062213904.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2523/6121/files/22819033906.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_off000094ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94EC 5312 bytes
SHA-256: fe60f168e6b591af4243d994cb0da426cf807f380140430c131e68471b66f4dd
font_01_sfnt_off0000a6ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6EA 14208 bytes
SHA-256: fdb742d109a50059335ff2f75e850a52d41df7196795c6b5c14c034629ccdd43