Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa72658a476dc3c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-10 00:45:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 10ca7075bd4f999693c28338fddd72e3 SHA-1: 8397ee608616055754294894c12e1f0c6c21c43b SHA-256: fa72658a476dc3c0b73ae4f74528029931e9f53852d95605e42503054789e0f2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a large number of seemingly benign links.

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/pify?keyword=bioreactor+design+and+operation+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.assv4u.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379591/8524758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mdesignslincoln.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/7871057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mtllabfsu.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856039/88227c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://raguxat.salmonriverwoodworks.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/zibimam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonimonuv.compassengut.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739590/8cc11277f0.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/1/0435/1960/6936/files/fomimerunuwaxamif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2187/6899/files/skyrim_intro_copypasta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7749/1105/files/xiriwijosukigokumosa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8529/9874/files/60367289096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6585/1560/files/zafogazugenuwuresemavuvu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7878/6965/files/pugupulidevifefid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3545/7698/files/my_guitar_shop_database_exercises_solutions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5438/3782/files/agronomy_kharif_crops.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3223/9528/files/accounting_ratios_questions.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1013/files/6261105242.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007afc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AFC 5128 bytes
SHA-256: abba5a7e251a0a0071f3b6f25bc42610559b1216f654234020fa9854276e8240
font_01_sfnt_off00008c77.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C77 10632 bytes
SHA-256: f3724d35595b810027b06b9f7c5092537f42f9ccf090fbde99716060a18c0cdd
font_02_sfnt_off0000b0cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0CC 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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