Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f6962e5b4d2aeb97…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 14:59:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 221efc1b51a9959f7f35987ab16e777a SHA-1: 4fe851657167f6f4d44215bab86a36fc4f8fcee1 SHA-256: f6962e5b4d2aeb97621a9e6cd5a43db9db5b54387986c688b5b732e86d74bf9d
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content. The document body contains obfuscated text and a reference to the redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • PHP webshell / backdoor source high WEBSHELL_PHP
    The file contains PHP server-side code with the signature of a webshell/backdoor (request input fed to a command/code-exec sink). A webshell takes attacker input from an HTTP request and runs commands/code on the server. Flagged as a malicious hacktool artifact even when carried inside a document or archive — the code does not execute from the carrier, but the file is a webshell.
  • 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=easter+event+osrs In PDF document text
    • http://files.lambsbride.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874139/51740bc5b324c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fourthfeathers.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969768/fiwuzudos_worujuxabesutop_nijijinir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spiraldancinglife.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814855/2579857.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/1/0429/1769/1559/files/golang_http_get.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5597/2506/files/stewart_james_calculus_7e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2070/6204/files/28046195002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63912397784.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6980/8535/files/94293538557.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6479/5044/files/66706563023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1763/3945/files/xititibixikufiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5971/4971/files/xakejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6951/2607/files/kms_urban_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7047/8746/files/57799749823.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8778/1276/files/11434461227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4334/8892/files/76085492956.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_off0000604a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x604A 4664 bytes
SHA-256: 6146ad5bbfd3775924c22cec8f70bce354b6437407a57c20bedbc8c8cc53434f
font_01_sfnt_off00007036.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7036 9872 bytes
SHA-256: 8f292a3e191f795d1a3c842cc9eb146738cb82955d3dea4c7f53109fdc8e7ec8