Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5525978bcd1151d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-09-16 19:08:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1a2582fb455214c79691f9058b9c2e09 SHA-1: 43229345e1f25e8f9bf124c5b23ae45f4003aa25 SHA-256: d5525978bcd1151d72e23c5645f7f921675aa7a9546ad349f66b43907949a27e
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure for a 'Universal a guide to the cosmos pdf download' and embeds numerous links. Several of these links point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a visual download button further supports the deceptive nature of the document. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.me/wix?keyword=universal+a+guide+to+the+cosmos+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.buythef-ckingdip.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/bomorujiza_dokipufawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zoguzipe.saaqld.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871395/bomofinatek_vatoxevu_fuseremebaxu_levutarejuduluv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gazakot.davisbaybc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969080/851818.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuwes.glummonkey.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/8301242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gafazetab.excellenthomedecor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438563/daxedorewetagimuwude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mikawawid.compassengut.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712336/5870094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://6a70fd53-5106-4520-8e2b-3d7fb08d5540.filesusr.com/ugd/696117_bd586cd2b9114cf78ca205908a5c1ddb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://82fe02ae-7a84-48c4-9911-b7109711347c.filesusr.com/ugd/9f06f8_046d27b0aaee4c1f9055fccdaa23668f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://7e2608d0-98cc-4ada-96bf-be5c2bf1142b.filesusr.com/ugd/24d943_ad05b2bc6b864169b65fbebcb5ecf8c4.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0df25c1c-d644-42c3-af30-5bbe8707d317.filesusr.com/ugd/61b8bf_c8118d4af4014ade9b418613f8294d77.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://13ab3858-f315-48ae-ba03-e42a3130f1f2.filesusr.com/ugd/dec231_2569af983b434b589d2611ac81ac349f.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5349/5958/files/bobbi_brown_makeup_manual_waterstones.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4929/5776/files/best_astronomy_app_android_2017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6887/5157/files/13804911313.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2891/4074/files/locally_sourced_cuba_tour_guides.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1518/4277/files/73398748372.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_off0000718a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x718A 5712 bytes
SHA-256: 9db3fd925e210684dc12c1a373bf42aad046433a96d6a0f40c2d27c3087ed867
font_01_sfnt_off000084e6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84E6 10636 bytes
SHA-256: 07764689ff52b0738c6f15cbed808c430f2455bc00abc188e10bf8bf48ae8999