Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7a98b289885d6ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 04:40:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cfdbf1adbbd08103bc20521b22874c01 SHA-1: 8802d5a49ac9e33c59e16714892e9a918b544b6c SHA-256: f7a98b289885d6ad8209a2035deb45861701b9eda1c9ef7cf37c2b4586e50db9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristics. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector found in the heuristics, suggesting an attempt to lure users to a malicious site for further compromise.

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/wb?keyword=mismatch%20repair%20mechanism%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://maxuguv.herbfire.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/cc84c098.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.katiethompsonestatevineyard.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740237/5802dc975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.easttexasplacenta.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384071/tefurukelinav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://silojetod.flewthecoop.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739564/ed621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xofase.laurencesullivan.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/6429596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4322/5751/files/18916205682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1952/5531/files/51252972270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8461/1733/files/kusebezaxikefevawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2539/2035/files/11th_grade_chemistry_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4530/6011/files/clear_variables_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/72619586694.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7266/0390/files/83012568023.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5868/3294/files/ardour_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0982/6213/files/tikaxatikatepiropo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2794/6904/files/18148660715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4857/4884/files/british_pronunciation_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1538/6774/files/the_arrangement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3027/3448/files/bring_up_genius_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3652/2149/files/42283019947.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB853 5048 bytes
SHA-256: 77f1aaafe715b6929930e611415948e7fc86d199633296a21453e92c5dfa7b5d
font_01_sfnt_off0000c94c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC94C 12148 bytes
SHA-256: 4f9bb4c7b2ce8b2b6cb2d423ee6ebb5380e681a1c4ff46b50465f5914e005f0f
font_02_sfnt_off0000f057.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF057 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c