Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1e78c822c7f8f96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 04:23:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0ca31272fe8c9348d4cddbeab9be8830 SHA-1: cd331006d888d53e7ac0c2f9a9e55c9aefae9c8b SHA-256: d1e78c822c7f8f96c0124699a7d95254f07d12a3993845b6cd8ec455c6201d73
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary attack pattern involves tricking users into clicking malicious links within the document.

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=panasonic+bread+maker+recipes+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.carolinegoldbergigra.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303270/660d854892c918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bionaturae.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398334/nujopef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In 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/1/0460/2249/2319/files/user_acceptance_testing_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3969/4741/files/36017664128.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6090/1528/files/vaxavolig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6847/9893/files/arquitectura_de_computadoras_morris_mano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3601/6802/files/9584231254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9581/8404/files/90385105852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4641/1162/files/captivity_of_negativity.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51507598499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4131/6249/files/tusebegalodumajis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8126/9401/files/free_excel_2020_calendar_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6591/8118/files/tamil_movies_telugu_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2625/9876/files/ciencias_naturales_sexto_grado.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000050c2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50C2 2456 bytes
SHA-256: 79585563766173c5374a0195968ddf231c8773d937be7ebd5555ead2f787567c
font_01_sfnt_off00005ba2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BA2 5228 bytes
SHA-256: 031b133e727ffb680ecd3d48102366d69892240ebe8a24797304d7ee305fee63
font_02_sfnt_off00006d32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D32 9816 bytes
SHA-256: 0577129dc18e42501fd120929255cf933993d0a0f741d2b80bf67334aa17ba26
font_03_sfnt_off00008ec8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EC8 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378