Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2d7343864eb0236…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-07-28 04:42:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8169fc3d72f4ea4a2d728f5bd54e070a SHA-1: c3a489c0b37ac18bbbc2d499a1fcdf38571fce31 SHA-256: f2d7343864eb0236bbd74e5808eb24fad2129d2b2e490c33d6c8969d1de65d89
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'CMS creditable coverage reporting', suggesting a potential lure for users seeking information on this topic. The presence of numerous links, including one to a malicious redirector, indicates an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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=cms+creditable+coverage+reporting In PDF document text
    • http://files.humateway.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682134/762291dd4c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.easytoquit.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438759/ranoreragolepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obsgynatlantic.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682335/dunovasepopu_rexijimijipidi.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/1/0428/4809/2323/files/rupelonibadukig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6647/5164/files/wupizijaneresusufatavajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2200/7969/files/32727168213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8023/6702/files/38731314535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4639/5304/files/45748903751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8023/6702/files/30315420174.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2693/2124/files/makubokumudonufegasanifek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/76222514852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6706/4998/files/33854502985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6004/4710/files/32999829062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8803/6505/files/tobabokodor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0463/2998/files/44924784941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/32296476761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4815/7859/files/74729709096.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_off00007729.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7729 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 0ba985cf1bc8db15ee0cd33418d18d2ac01860b861cc18693d3761942512a7bb
font_01_sfnt_off0000896f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x896F 9976 bytes
SHA-256: 54af53e7a054bfe9aee03eb50ed1741f5c18fa3877d0459361f53052d3c20e03