Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 00a04b7327c48147…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 03:07:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 7c21b0f623708fb7ecfe1b4f42731438 SHA-1: ff78ad81e780c9dbadeed263e81cf142d9688d3c SHA-256: 00a04b7327c481470bed3ef885373999a60e54188f1bc09587c33b5c163a1a2e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, but one specific link redirects through a known malicious redirector. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for free PDF downloads, likely to phish credentials or deliver further malware. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.com/pify?keyword=nonverbal+messages+cracking+the+code+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.sillysoundsandscribbles.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071298/gufupowozine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gvrshow.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379671/1569629.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dovernewlife.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739043/nejeruxokevuv-genexaxovupuk.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/1/0437/0654/8377/files/acid_rap_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0944/0935/files/latiziwimavizofasapifux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9056/6556/files/how_to_pronounce_french_words.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9721/0532/files/28877336719.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6092/7393/files/underscore_remove_duplicates.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5431/6197/files/32518987094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8299/8170/files/dizoxedafixevigifeduwawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5550/4795/files/kisuranalapapumemegoviv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8329/1029/files/diagnosis_and_treatment_of_tuberculosis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4935/2349/files/visut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5326/0706/files/83663554400.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000674a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x674A 5892 bytes
SHA-256: 79c89561ed5c37c0145ba7a52d3d4d3c5131ba31f761041e18fc28c1d3abff88
font_01_sfnt_off00007b4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B4A 10112 bytes
SHA-256: def4350fc64e4431a29ded4d8dc32f2a8ef6f6ebdf52f52b878ae42107f5d400

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