Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd73fe048b43055b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-04 02:02:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2f0d31ce906aa6ef152b0dd6edf02a95 SHA-1: 5a00e5b9d755062f11bce4c73d10be0b2ac8875c SHA-256: fd73fe048b43055b2308ea276e8532fe71c4daaf520d9482924195135620da1f
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download button, intended to lure the user to a malicious site. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to external resources. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is designed to initiate a further download or redirect to malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • PHP webshell / backdoor source high WEBSHELL_PHP
    The file contains PHP server-side code with the signature of a webshell/backdoor (request input fed to a command/code-exec sink). A webshell takes attacker input from an HTTP request and runs commands/code on the server. Flagged as a malicious hacktool artifact even when carried inside a document or archive — the code does not execute from the carrier, but the file is a webshell.
  • 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=coordinate+geometry+formula+sheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sparksprotectionusa.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969663/wavetigaka_sawakuzudetijug_bogiroxekox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stalbansbg.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411596/xororodivofuxum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rzecoseal.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969683/5398681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thatonepinkdog.studio/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163879/6178361.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6016/5797/files/sunuju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7216/7841/files/39729827487.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0923/5353/files/83146399842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0885/2117/files/kuwoxugoguzesajabunafalef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8929/7568/files/doweti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0491/1006/files/http__centurylink._net.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6962/6781/files/sazowexorezedidofututuzan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4162/8072/files/wamovirutalukuvaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6931/7020/files/xojuwasatorilix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8248/9762/files/fogosifomef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4903/1592/files/25938946868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/monexa.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006bef.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BEF 5464 bytes
SHA-256: a0faca9851cedf811b0442fadcc8b474a097faccb046ae5e262252f56f7159c7
font_01_sfnt_off00007e61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E61 14656 bytes
SHA-256: 5b00122cab67117d45ad3595eb915ba51d60b45695c64cf9fe6361885e910ebe