Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df067257de057a65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 67973cfaefdb130124f7de6acb8dd12a SHA-1: aa0f9534708ff56851489e8a1da2f8c6c35a38c7 SHA-256: df067257de057a6509fbbf0403e3359af0856e15a073fc6e4623a955a6ac1aa9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it is an 'annual report' lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of multiple external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic.

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=dsd+annual+report+2017 In PDF document text
    • http://fepima.ellaportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380480/gaxomezezixatelu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aauindiana.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637362/vaben.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lancastergalesbaseball.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606165/mipanitunote.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.queenofangelsspred.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775516/zukag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.postmarkmusicstore.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070846/6396571.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/1/0429/3584/5017/files/nibetu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1470/1735/files/asientos_contables_de_compras_y_ventas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2885/7503/files/nupizizudifunakiliji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9481/9484/files/basilivakabobasene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5383/3637/files/94391636849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6761/2067/files/raguvemikibirapikepazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4486/7994/files/rename_a_file_linux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4163/5997/files/69553240183.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4214/3389/files/tikizekagelere.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0813/7115/files/jofajigagunipokixarovopu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2016/3999/files/44958592298.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1280/8091/files/pre_calculus_grade_11_stem_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0004/5465/files/xevusarozunere.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_off00008dfd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DFD 5360 bytes
SHA-256: 79641760c2ecef432a1f16b403066bd24377a62f107cc3101621e04d7fba88fe
font_01_sfnt_off0000a04c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA04C 10696 bytes
SHA-256: 25c90863237b254cc25e79b9be3628c33180beb186b18acf3c17cc56b6033bf8