Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d679fd7f658152c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:30:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 52c37374d90d654aedac45062521ab9b SHA-1: 4c2c3394019456fac67c91686d38d3c543ca26b5 SHA-256: d679fd7f658152c5989447c05dfd5b58b45a702b5ae41f467edd1472a930f6d3
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a link farm heuristic further supports the malicious intent.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=how+to+calibrate+pressure+transmitter+with+hart+communicator+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.qualitymulch.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070894/8160473.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.santebarleyphils.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438453/5ae6d81b9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jupebef.hbcatherinewriting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606248/tiladagoduxusaw-misatijokagaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.natinelflowerslinensandrentals.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871633/9174098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beccarothfeld.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/sapijevob.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/1/0432/1522/4996/files/wupedexuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2508/8168/files/90773527362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/64147670664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7492/9319/files/nemedakoxokedebaxazak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3172/4183/files/wupetozete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1737/1801/files/42159336262.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3443/4969/files/alter_ego_3_b1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2782/2749/files/90563171986.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5463/6966/files/95251469565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6620/4066/files/99566973673.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0718/0954/files/90188310325.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0028/0734/files/dosavexorabaser.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4196/2649/files/bedurakidilu.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_off000079d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79D6 5588 bytes
SHA-256: 40df12a0f0b81b4ee1434e9f9f7da25724bf4814494190bc451a1643d8243c42
font_01_sfnt_off00008cb2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CB2 10388 bytes
SHA-256: 5fba6f0c487ebe62336263c272587cdf60d569bd112463947a057ba05326e3d7