Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b968812e4d44a90b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:24:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d1d31a9cd4735f8feb9b8a5de2aaa609 SHA-1: dd927d2b83f8daf84baf05966c031aa06ec0b8f7 SHA-256: b968812e4d44a90bad2417f1f2e1a758880ee8e8654ff66f4009f2409c443d2b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL pointing to a known malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to lead the user to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of numerous links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination.

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=begone+unbelief+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.daretodreamwv.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774969/togotowofudip-lebojifawomujo-vipon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jacksonholeeventmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406036/rixuzikizuwola.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://likux.maths180.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/nisaforokamirixiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ro.megaplot.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681823/65b7e69dc53.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rmlegaldocumentpreparation.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/faroj.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/1/0433/5301/4427/files/xekerojililelosowekeforeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wajomuxufukurojudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4292/0865/files/mass_effect_2_zaeed_dlc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9884/7896/files/74719729723.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6352/files/susat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0102/7493/files/dusonexowupaketol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5573/5199/files/63628353740.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8497/1173/files/votix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9720/1567/files/suvasosawuwulep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5827/5238/files/ketegixas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8578/3447/files/ase_g1_practice_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3321/4621/files/surisotozerisov.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ec5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EC5 4716 bytes
SHA-256: 32e4aba6287845b524e6028631c3699103d5261b80974b8d8daa638c7a3ce291
font_01_sfnt_off00006ed8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ED8 10548 bytes
SHA-256: 5565eb17fc238b5f31b2c4a275ef1964dd3a40d8a2b4f1fb9a652f1e8abf4807
font_02_sfnt_off000092e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92E3 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2