Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d987dbf501d52f57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-07-29 19:36:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 922e7d3a00309fb80d2e4a659c634bdc SHA-1: 6911160d3517f6edddb4908ec42340520e889b59 SHA-256: d987dbf501d52f577962e6faf71c8d9d23b372b86d6bb5e96807fa9eebd3177c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. This redirector leads to a link farm of other PDFs, suggesting a campaign to drive traffic to malicious content. The document body text appears to be obfuscated or corrupted, making it difficult to ascertain the exact lure, but the presence of advertisement-related keywords and the redirector strongly indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=msrtc+advertisement+2+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.topshedidaho.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738534/fojuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gusandrubys.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695492/6082968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.busterbledsoeband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/1938701.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4122/4861/files/10007179082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1466/5878/files/sonikekusojapagavipigul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/46946939033.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2684/9700/files/noxadavobizilerama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58097506778.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7190/4673/files/94016922838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8844/5589/files/36985608461.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0899/1142/files/puwapegumejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3146/1016/files/56438862077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4033/files/zukew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/bomotamenuzejiluxufun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0192/1184/files/39691762511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8348/0736/files/purepafilotozumaragite.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_off000073f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73F6 5288 bytes
SHA-256: d6abb243d5ec7d5fc9bb9912177b61f16aa9b8e56576e25ad073172a42b83b64
font_01_sfnt_off000085d7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85D7 1936 bytes
SHA-256: a8ba320a0ac8a73a5a8cc2c47ba30bd151ec5f51af4d5ac0b9daf85eaa8f1301
font_02_sfnt_off00008f1c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F1C 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 6b10a1a4e12dc19ef0a5f51979beb95e1bf98dcbd86dbe792ed2b4db4afce22b
font_03_sfnt_off0000b210.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB210 4180 bytes
SHA-256: 0f14a6936955bdee084f1ba76b134a2047337bc61d6a7ac48b42ebeae6745230