Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fceb0f295a7f21a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-09-18 23:12:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7fddda34bab46fd230b731ec5c71b068 SHA-1: 30872af0e5f0d5f5656be0f1d99217874afafbc0 SHA-256: fceb0f295a7f21a3a213649d22f43b1da596bb69ea4564e8bb3dfaf24e70df7d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to suspicious domains and redirectors. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that at least one link leads to known malicious infrastructure. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests the document is designed to generate traffic to numerous external PDF files, likely as part of a link farm or SEO manipulation scheme to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of numerous suspicious URLs strongly suggests a malicious intent to redirect users to harmful sites.

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.link/wix?keyword=black+church+anniversary+themes In PDF document text
    • http://badezomes.gracebaptistlockport.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636648/8672001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.madeinthehood.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455463/606861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lajafomo.thetravelingeo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738511/ratonoxavi-jenosuno-tiregawojam-mufisakifitem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fanex.philcohomes.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739573/e0a83b8820ef72.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://limivik.creartistry.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813632/tumijasuv-bekewinuzul-widale-savipikomavo.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://ebbd097e-ed11-4507-9440-fdacf3d739e4.filesusr.com/ugd/9b7d8a_27cb711799604993bc8be84d129806ba.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://13eb43bc-7d47-412b-b232-cfae27947dcd.filesusr.com/ugd/1b6cec_867752edb3ff4b49a650b958266e1544.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://627675c0-d7b5-4661-8a5d-b90f233fe011.filesusr.com/ugd/e98895_afdf17890b294924a71c7f879f240427.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://98e74662-deda-46e0-bfe8-1c7e2c663521.filesusr.com/ugd/badafb_0b596471d2db4d5dbcb2dd266ab7f589.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://17c840ae-ef6a-4f23-90f9-eb64190e8c45.filesusr.com/ugd/0251f0_5c9081e5a96f4d1490b307e1fb886652.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6901/3144/files/52828283119.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6281/1034/files/bagorugijoreki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7287/9773/files/46592027255.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4902/files/flowers_images_png_format.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9649/6544/files/43978877287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9743/7848/files/7578450505.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_off00007625.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7625 5088 bytes
SHA-256: 6fb231799d192827a3f26b46247ee6b12a82df810f635fb64419db5d90087713
font_01_sfnt_off00008742.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8742 10552 bytes
SHA-256: d8fc857e9bc441fabac4161606e50cd5c75c353ad7c11c982fae7a80ad1cd4e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000aad1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAAD1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3