Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2c196d03243a01b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 19:44:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 16fe226fc1b28645a17e259152c84952 SHA-1: fd18ed3f4d6b5598565ee7a348464fa8ec18f306 SHA-256: d2c196d03243a01bd74214d2a31efd4f1dc740420f4d37b968bb5de9eca84fb3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure for a 'Canon eos 760d manual pdf'. The presence of a link farm and a redirector suggests an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure, likely for malware distribution or phishing. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=canon+eos+760d+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sjamediaarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739892/susigixofedufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gunape.camandmica.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637830/tikoligerelanenup.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/1/0434/7723/7920/files/tolefajovixineninu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0494/4807/files/zawixamugiros.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1037/5325/files/26838267619.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7066/0508/files/56550644486.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4122/5880/files/security_deposit_receipt.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2122/1539/files/nexijezip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4184/1575/files/rabubexidemavenujufivur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/40169505762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4136/4890/files/wow_affliction_warlock_guide_bfa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7530/3592/files/karuppusamy_kuthagaitharar_full_hd_movie_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6227/8809/files/jexisivuxijozexavokus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8543/6830/files/project_issue_log_excel_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4126/8647/files/93194843282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8356/3162/files/mekefom.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d9b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9B 5372 bytes
SHA-256: c32b6dabab65ea984e4294e92567de7bf98c19183d59b62c60b80366a77fc0a9
font_01_sfnt_off00007fd5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FD5 10420 bytes
SHA-256: 4e198ce793674537bfbdb5e8262e23f1e869ea425681af0d2f79910cb8134158