Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fb50a233d3efc263…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.5 KB Created: 2020-08-13 02:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 75c56ba25b5686ddd65e31f646e4530f SHA-1: 00c4a221e62c1e1c1fea52eed8e8a4b66e02ab71 SHA-256: fb50a233d3efc26302f82d50c9e4f1c9822211f895feaa8ad7a58f9564e21c62
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL to the malicious redirector, suggesting an attempt to lure users to malicious content under the guise of providing academic or technical documents. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of a malicious redirector link and a link farm, indicating a phishing or SEO poisoning attack.

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=annalen+der+physik+english+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sweetwoodilstudies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380741/776202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rezegi.moosemanormi.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/bekixisofe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kol-tzedek.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438453/2997a5d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.discountwiresupply.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411688/7bc68.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.texasangiesadventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397973/74c108131b86.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/1/0430/7792/7072/files/hesston_540_round_baler_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8995/files/87476045918.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/98931317695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7931/1253/files/kinixujobowufabodaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7331/5740/files/64156778616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2198/4166/files/naravemanedasowamaka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/mewexatagunogezotonijuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9596/4314/files/ariston_electric_water_heater_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8172/8151/files/47740480503.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5476/8032/files/48290360335.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3428/0099/files/safuwikobetiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/47983837682.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7027/5237/files/kinukaziv.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_off00009bac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BAC 5056 bytes
SHA-256: f39d89d4cb8d42975b88ba98d815191b6a34813a6707a3735921aea03623cdfc
font_01_sfnt_off0000acc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACC6 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 6c5ec457b8609da710a2f303ada11b14ce0b18a73000e0404a530abbd09ab374
font_02_sfnt_off0000d132.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD132 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2