Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e199cfd047616978…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-09-16 20:54:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 03819d74eaabf5e02451288753248f70 SHA-1: 1d06c048f7c94802b00bdf38cf704a9ba6e3ba27 SHA-256: e199cfd047616978532910374c37fe2e9be88a154b31ea159abc5372cf564892
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to a URL containing a search query for 'bloons tower defense 5 apk'. This suggests a lure to trick users into downloading potentially malicious software or visiting a phishing site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL. The presence of numerous other embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, further supports the 'link farm' heuristic, indicating a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content.

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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/wix?keyword=bloons+tower+defense+5+apk In PDF document text
    • http://milabigoz.kelseyroserocks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437454/lubezepufak_xemopomovu_kuriwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mubimixag.ketymae.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453027/538b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mstreetfreerunning.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683135/wadud_kotijuxomobo_xavenefolutipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://06e89dc1-5b57-4e53-baf3-f74bb1a3b053.filesusr.com/ugd/a32c20_8b40c3c0f6474f31acfe57209aa9496d.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://df8a8fcd-04e2-4092-b42b-c664ada9f80a.filesusr.com/ugd/f2ef67_52b4ed0877c5427cae3c5ad2e374b3cc.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ffdf500a-0edd-4152-a7ba-1dd489b5b662.filesusr.com/ugd/55e2c6_d69d564121374b0f9258c7d58f0c3940.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://907f91e9-c0e6-4224-b71f-e1002ee1a82c.filesusr.com/ugd/0182ef_332e31e31b7b48f39e49e7384bfd6e48.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://0b59de2a-76e2-4894-abae-337391778b04.filesusr.com/ugd/1a1092_4da4dcbfed484e2fbfd0ac38f6d973c2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f1e4f9da-aba3-4fbf-b094-ffa5037c6cac.filesusr.com/ugd/4fb05f_d89b6f3b99e74d09a3bc0ac812fa3247.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://48fc243a-2ff1-4d2b-a113-651809a72fee.filesusr.com/ugd/15ebe2_1b1f2ff40fd34916a7d07d9d263883ae.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://04cc92c7-3c84-4193-bd37-b4b208eef5aa.filesusr.com/ugd/3e87bf_2962507ec42e4f43b5ef9aeb3ce597a3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://ee266eaf-422d-48dc-be6d-9ffd4744f7ad.filesusr.com/ugd/c57cae_8ae9156c61c94b8197a74a2b82f8d7df.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://a2c2e907-fff8-4692-9246-61f5063e3cf7.filesusr.com/ugd/2e4eb4_e7707bb15a1e4d58927af406e77e779a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://6a649b27-b942-4f94-aa83-b4601f1139e4.filesusr.com/ugd/09c3c7_1cdb392ed3344c8fa199d6afb6eff540.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://5a5b7d38-7f0b-4e92-9ccd-076edc9e83c5.filesusr.com/ugd/ab922d_71409b324187461ea8ce5f0513b5ff04.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://235847af-367f-4307-95ec-087b91f47ca4.filesusr.com/ugd/33a16d_3fe3136f0da344eb9024f6c93c0578dc.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off00006506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6506 5364 bytes
SHA-256: 4da7c068fb4f17cd8b81aca8eb8d9c7594adb20d54d994606c5cfd38e8e5e760
font_01_sfnt_off00007772.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7772 10100 bytes
SHA-256: 7e0c55cc73189ee88e5eeff2793a7bd66ca0b2269d45e3e972a5b8fed1a8e660