Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f68027e941c78288…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.5 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:13:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a3f8d2410f6d42e71b640ed304fd4655 SHA-1: 47345fd7f87f1feffdec44291d4e926220aeed78 SHA-256: f68027e941c7828810bd39af0f540027ffcda411243cab9cfeff52980d0964af
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains a URL that matches the redirector link found in the heuristics, suggesting a lure to external content. The primary malicious activity appears to be the distribution of links pointing to potentially harmful websites.

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=aalayal+thara+venam+lyrics+in+malayalam In PDF document text
    • http://files.littleoasis.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/b557d59ad24.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zudefik.satxinspector.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814070/1419345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innerdolphinawakening.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/kumuvefajolen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pejix.jornalizem.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/zegatevajidakir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.in)MeeraRegularMeera2016SMC7.0.0+20171102HussainIn PDF document text
    • http://smc.org.inhttp://smc.org.inIn 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/1/0434/8549/5453/files/sumoxuxipexuwezadafalus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5179/5107/files/beruputezetuweredujabumar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/4444/3036/files/energia_eolica_en_el_peru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5686/1077/files/facts_about_poseidon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/7858/4229/files/invitation_templates_for_sport_event.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4634/6658/files/bufosikupabakalirunapef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5600/9111/files/miseruludure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6945/7063/files/tevadosupiju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7871/2472/files/37844778936.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62654677968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2743/9526/files/xopomifekupalibalopopo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4552/8487/files/how_to_become_a_fluent_english_speaker.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
    • https://gitlab.com/smc/meera/blob/master/COPYINGIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off000067a1.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x67A1 9172 bytes
SHA-256: b633aff07cd2d06a854df05d22dc461aa408653ee506457154b45377f91ab4e5
font_00_sfnt_off0000562c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x562C 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 5e79fcaa2cebff150764f09e211cbe7a37604ff87b078a91e868a532e4414f95
font_02_sfnt_off000086c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86C9 9868 bytes
SHA-256: 53152857fb6ce6fc91d49510d9efbf7a81821ab4d1a4693ceaa8baa61789c195