Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01086ebd0d2aa6aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 17:15:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 348a6b5baa92e3f55e34fa8309678d82 SHA-1: 36b833e4342cae689009584e98e172198f47cfed SHA-256: 01086ebd0d2aa6aa908419746916c02ad3866e0fdc57b08aa0677c2079fac039
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded URLs that point to a redirector service, which in turn links to a "link farm" of other PDFs. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to spreadsheet functionality. The ML classifier and heuristics strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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.cc/pify?keyword=how+to+copy+conditional+formatting+across+sheets In PDF document text
    • http://files.bigsisterschicago.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482991/9d243e39876f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zozolapi.gotruckgo.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776436/475840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sarahpearman.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398182/79decec9aa4a.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/1/0434/6268/8918/files/xebunural.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5429/3402/files/85212552138.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0203/5352/files/popesowinojodiferogav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/5029/9555/files/minimize_size_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7996/4574/files/demaregi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4693/5447/files/gozipapasawu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6671/9385/files/tirolut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5082/6905/files/aspergillus_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4857/4884/files/pavonimumujipuzepisoxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5602/9093/files/50256275932.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9074/8316/files/vesipotajewonejan.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_off00007187.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7187 5724 bytes
SHA-256: f70a304b63aba999a3538eb8aa09a925bcbe86c2750123d4c94415c15d873bc2
font_01_sfnt_off000084e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84E5 10632 bytes
SHA-256: 1a085ce32b5754bfa9e39efba0244984dc31052fe145073ebc501b717d1b1261