Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd42662da1b02e92…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 03:40:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9d638256b7d696764e255f46658d44e8 SHA-1: 3bab88a800974584cdd2cdd9dc3859278d3e06c6 SHA-256: cd42662da1b02e92ca0d55bb2dfe4a73113619c0efc0f4d68013d02faaa3cc05
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning scheme designed to lure users to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=speaking+business+english+like+an+american+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ferrumforge.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776558/susutejatiga-dokutave-jabomajabun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.harvieherrington.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482878/5cc895e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.benjaminjephta.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379099/lugebapos.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/1/0431/1220/2389/files/vutiwovodinoleve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7872/0414/files/vilivogofogi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9069/6597/files/beselutuginafoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8184/3356/files/rolezuwirepozapugoza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4959/9651/files/bipavositas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zupapinited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5096/4904/files/37644174648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3767/1080/files/mulive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7930/1275/files/twic_card_application_forms.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_off000095c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95C5 5876 bytes
SHA-256: eef8b777a8e0e76cee64dd7edf5789501a5f88e70157ce93158a048e98cfddc5
font_01_sfnt_off0000a997.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA997 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 94eafeb2d7f3dc72d22fbeee75a5e50b610cda1dc69eea2919c4521ec4aef6ca

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