Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da35968314cd8417…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:50:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 062b822ef25a22b19fa1748279563360 SHA-1: ca09f80ad73eb6dcc08adcce5d881c604c9cb222 SHA-256: da35968314cd84172da32aa6dc85752d045b6da5196efe20d60731b742baa129
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the book 'Au bonheur des dames' and includes the primary malicious URL. The presence of numerous embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution 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.ru/pify?keyword=au+bonheur+des+dames+chapitre+1+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://jajozi.frpstudio52.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696323/323053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bluestarjumpers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411474/8c98fa610f407.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.creatingthespaces.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380495/fifujutaxuw.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/1/0430/7143/9001/files/13776580791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5935/5556/files/31962674138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1370/9722/files/12965342809.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8808/5143/files/89086512266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4764/8406/files/rememuzigerawaxufigu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4914/7803/files/fakepetofavazaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0018/4477/files/54226672087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5620/9819/files/lesogumorujibakenogub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8558/6841/files/24761523790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7346/0641/files/vanabemubewazexivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4863/9391/files/fremennik_hard_diary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3927/files/75588269814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6485/2634/files/34217521082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5542/3383/files/jikujojegava.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_off00006e3d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E3D 5544 bytes
SHA-256: 0b04ddc732f15a554dbd65452506800e2cea0bd0d1ebf574ab9709452a80d018
font_01_sfnt_off000080ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80ED 11980 bytes
SHA-256: 01ad3f0b21c013f1fec72aee4f032218eacad18b8c4a3a1181ee73ca0325fdca