Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f59320bc3326716b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-07-31 13:45:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 46b11ef9be016f7380897d98c227e2b6 SHA-1: 25191d9b6728133d772837902e79b8e49408938e SHA-256: f59320bc3326716bc9497a75afc7458db28a95f46ee4de335e66afc352439572
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 pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates a critical threat. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, as identified by 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM', suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content through a large number of seemingly legitimate but controlled URLs. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual intent, but the presence of these malicious links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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/pify?keyword=allan+kardec+livros+dos+espiritos+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.weelessons.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071035/cbbb5e5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nppopb.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070518/korapul-turusagiwupug-retevoxusezem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.outdoorkidhandbook.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814216/nokef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.agbio-inc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776875/ralodukomojopi.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/1/0431/3058/5239/files/21466980511.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1230/8637/files/mulumisisiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3622/1341/files/55517899773.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7826/2689/files/6145619889.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1415/2607/files/pipigimulilepufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48054684450.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0623/8626/files/xajifaliledisawafam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4878/files/lugerup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/35420125288.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/32829552166.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9240/files/vixixigilipelidaba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gegexovikorojirokelaxedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6645/8265/files/rotupuwoxivilemixenome.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9603/9833/files/kedanubaneroge.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_off00007892.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7892 5052 bytes
SHA-256: 70dba7a35e44e61ff6433f20da385cff91d7bd80263a4594179b9ab0de94ab54
font_01_sfnt_off000089c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89C6 12404 bytes
SHA-256: 10f62ae3c9785a5c1c39fb88daeda77536fa2e406810520cde3acd5e52ea9c68