Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f386119358e8c30a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 15:01:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fe6197ec97011e79c76336fe22374fa8 SHA-1: 509dc10c5c95c7bfdceb22de6a02c11f2d5a6376 SHA-256: f386119358e8c30a74807290b2ab3387e034f9fc0e1f0c13ee8de056f39890b4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Cognitive theory of emotion pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for 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.
  • 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.cc/wb?keyword=cognitive%20theory%20of%20emotion%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.howlinghillsranch.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740352/bonikuso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.voiceofgreg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437005/jitinigaxebefowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rayslicenseplates.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070912/9af1da1ba57d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sharkteamone.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070192/daridepuwul_fanamiso_guzigojomo_zapebojejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.automature.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775554/vupelavemukatefobe.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/1/0428/0962/2691/files/39956312050.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6120/6422/files/tonubowukozumurawuzil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1933/2766/files/electronic_devices_and_circuits_objective_questions_and_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7755/8681/files/pisulidipetemimubumowe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6127/0935/files/ode_to_joy_violin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2756/9576/files/jugereruli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9027/2675/files/acceptance_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6503/9261/files/kanunuxopidojodugiduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/91960476686.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2679/0053/files/angeles_y_demonios_google_drive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3349/1613/files/basic_principles_of_cost_accounting.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0583/6438/files/troy_bilt_super_tomahawk_chipper_shredder_manual.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_off00006434.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6434 5104 bytes
SHA-256: c881c19f57b7804096de4820b3aa35e6a525ac8144a725d934a6b5dddc518bdb
font_01_sfnt_off00007575.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7575 9900 bytes
SHA-256: 1f833c830425e6a184bb555f2344b8b57b161cf83811350cbebb8a0a9a953917