Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f895016d8efe1007…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 05:27:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d1e1d805d86764def2b1dff8a208e650 SHA-1: 9ba2612a8c7f245ff8c1959f807826cd7aee4e53 SHA-256: f895016d8efe10074038a6f3ad1d48744bcdb258483ddab91d6a605263fc1ef3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file exhibits malicious characteristics, including linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure and hosting a large number of external PDF links, likely for SEO manipulation or phishing. The embedded content and heuristics strongly suggest a lure to download further malicious content, disguised as a document about blockchain technology. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=decentralized+applications+harnessing+bitcoin+s+blockchain+technology+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://muwul.blueskyaircraftmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856917/0314ed8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gwenwisniewski.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380054/maxunewuwagig_xodufedefo_bukid_tibutesez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.plazacateringboston.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164425/leboginojurov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.meridianbodycare.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857193/6976761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.celestegamble.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437919/besugipe-tefeletezubej-teguzo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3807/9138/files/bobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/19941062624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2225/3205/files/geduduwuxurosom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5472/5270/files/13154847517.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3015/1330/files/xamuxepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8131/0101/files/nudifoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7353/6161/files/51772783753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1563/files/wekovoresulonujatawixubu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/46213305681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3293/5574/files/27235344887.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2930/6263/files/falasabikuvukigex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3422/1466/files/70655190974.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
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ad2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AD2 5864 bytes
SHA-256: 474e985db8cad285ee2feae2728704282ef61035de10d7298d1569ef78b39d8d
font_01_sfnt_off00006ed9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ED9 6664 bytes
SHA-256: 20532d830b56ce09521e8c0129e11fade894dbc16869cb9b5dccaabcdd5de3e6
font_02_sfnt_off00008062.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8062 10100 bytes
SHA-256: e004876f2d0677b52f754a11e5f4f96b30cc4bf0b186a4a1e68ef4d039e1a2ba