Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c025239e256754f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-14 09:26:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1b90039ecb43030154b8a44991fd47d0 SHA-1: 715b218f624058e0fb6d909d14d693274cd6acb8 SHA-256: c025239e256754f603c7b68d2c01a057a233e3311156d5d638cbff4cde9176d1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass of external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.ru/pify?keyword=cubital+fossa+ppt In PDF document text
    • http://files.thegoodnewswebsite.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636834/25a3f0e6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wexasumo.redwordediting.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/c70ada79a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.holeybuttons.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384127/175992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tpched.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682934/wiket.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/1/0431/0981/0343/files/aspirina_100_en_el_embarazo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/20424522606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4169/2570/files/center_a_button_css.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9864/5404/files/54110269934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2407/9254/files/wikuvokotolaxat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8787/1646/files/11192999103.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6625/3724/files/vaxevuwupewoxujugofevixof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3229/0215/files/63141638114.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4167/6694/files/canard_pc_gratuit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6918/4931/files/black_and_white_photography_a_basic_manual_henry_horenstein.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8083/1396/files/57640741379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19836568605.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_off00006662.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6662 4844 bytes
SHA-256: 044d8f1fdba2d531a52bc7673a58eb325cf0f751fc00e06e1cb8fd831cc8a4bf
font_01_sfnt_off000076ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76ED 10640 bytes
SHA-256: 10dbe689a20a03419c2836549c54652ac4bca19ed893efa2e48bba45e363ecb9

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