Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ecd99191a988624d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 23:41:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5a97414b73b20f432d3feaba38407e03 SHA-1: 2efe21533802769d4fa08caae22629b9ff68e045 SHA-256: ecd99191a988624d7503e46242a7115b3cb40c1002fb5387ce60e6380a73061d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a software plugin. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that the primary link leads to known malicious infrastructure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests the document is part of a larger link farm, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the true destination. The embedded URL and the document body both point to the 'ireport plugin for netbeans' lure.

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=ireport+plugin+for+netbeans In PDF document text
    • http://xiwawuzi.boostsportsconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/nexabu-wotegu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jeboga.skintwalletsusa.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775934/8b67929492167dd.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mebetajim.bluethunderbirdwoman.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739892/ruwetezare.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pilotskb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482878/vinoginefate.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.talsegevphotos.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164046/4664459.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/1/0438/3057/5266/files/xorifem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/7868051279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2232/6696/files/xanagatojar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4444/5092/files/nonolisunonowosolabaxaxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5950/3519/files/94652316372.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3564/6357/files/21912557281.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6068/2139/files/64246417973.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/calculus_early_transcendentals_briggs_cochran.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6365/7119/files/wuradosorafunu.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_off0000572c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x572C 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 0896e6939dfba42ab27b84d020723688ac6790af3f431ffafdeffb2d8ab06abd
font_01_sfnt_off000068b0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68B0 9504 bytes
SHA-256: 8b41f9b09ab0ea31c7083a3f004bf88a89372f3358dd881d1c307a5bb31b8478