Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c2783a805e8f75a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-07-31 21:45:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d17312ce5325a68a231ebc07d35f93ff SHA-1: 22a3a1b5e8ee7368aa58e32c8af3ae27d8f95845 SHA-256: c2783a805e8f75a9beb9b8a1688623699bb2de8d698556c99f8cf80aa5d08018
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious URL, identified as a redirector for potential phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the text 'Why are my steam downloads so slow' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous external PDF links further indicates a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=why+are+my+steam+downloads+so+slow In PDF document text
    • http://files.myshinglesstory.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871670/wivelosebujefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smarthvacsupply.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380001/3866e38c01.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.modernhistoryseminars.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/bobutij-wupalokalerig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ldceny.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775221/januf-fopigilu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nurturefamilychiropractic.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164157/juval.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/1/0440/6539/0757/files/63711004786.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1667/4713/files/14143752317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2183/6193/files/purovekagawepulajepemur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2370/3969/files/lazatene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8589/7627/files/dalafowutifibuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mogapusezonoxifetomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5594/6655/files/37932430268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8130/9083/files/5611614894.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2666/8952/files/74279550628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/widufuxomidopevemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5458/7288/files/29501043927.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7070/9150/files/57526738231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2666/8952/files/mowakarogefakefo.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000742d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x742D 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 94d144137248c76c18ee1918d8065e88b6c79bc725a21415eee32ce36be49984
font_01_sfnt_off00008608.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8608 9948 bytes
SHA-256: 804a478dca583930251bacb8e86f9c56eac4b26cec872a8d7774536d035b9a62
font_02_sfnt_off0000a837.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA837 16116 bytes
SHA-256: b0fa52173cf04b285f5a6379e59dbec661bcf0e06b6cb6d2876f3e95daaaabac