When setting multiple footmarks inside an environment that doesn't allow any (equation), the ids correspond to the correct footnotetexts but not the hyperlinks.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
Text\footnote{text1} Text\footnote{text2}
\begin{equation}
\refstepcounter{equation}
J=b a^3
\tag{\theequation\footnotemark{}\footnotemark{}}
\end{equation}
\#1 links to \#1
\#2 links to \#2
\#3 does not link anywhere
\#4 links to \#3
\addtocounter{footnote}{-2} %3=n
\stepcounter{footnote}\footnotetext{a}
\stepcounter{footnote}\footnotetext{b}
\newpage\null\thispagestyle{empty}\newpage
\end{document}
hyperref. See this answer of lockstep for a workaround. – karlkoeller Dec 24 '13 at 08:02