Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 02830eb874eab2c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:11:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ccccd30fb515af95c0557a5245134bc7 SHA-1: aed3918226157e84c0f48fe9ddeffd144b48ca99 SHA-256: 02830eb874eab2c17a6a1f12bde1dd39dd4a704f223f054bc08b550ecbff5d71
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to redirector infrastructure known for malicious activity. The document body, though obfuscated, contains a URL that is also present in the heuristics, suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of numerous links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, combined with the redirector, indicates a likely SEO spam or phishing campaign.

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=women%2527+s+saucony+guide+iso+running+shoes In PDF document text
    • http://tewajij.emmauswellbeingmatters.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814788/losimadijimoziruki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.realmagicroadshow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775635/9426746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obviouslyavi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454771/voxurida-dadutiresida-mumizulufonujiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.apexhighband.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/refezexeku.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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/54263249787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9097/5647/files/xapunubamagivuriweja.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0000/3749/files/zujoligubigizafiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7731/2411/files/15457982390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7998/1470/files/battle_royale_2000_full_movie.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2186/8960/files/baldur_s_gate_dorn.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/3284/0101/files/civil_engineering_building_materials_and_construction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0767/9397/files/access_control_system_training.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5830/8006/files/likebovupegizexov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1449/6161/files/52616959671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kipisoluni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4953/4111/files/vizio_remote_code_for_directv.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_off0000554d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x554D 5272 bytes
SHA-256: 0923098f01d50564b0e2d12714f57b48f9f7ccfff273d24badc4019d7635ff9f
font_01_sfnt_off0000670d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x670D 10596 bytes
SHA-256: efeee4bd2fd4ad99f17bba07f297017fbf446b3247a2af7b1dc1d0779e9eee9e
font_02_sfnt_off00008b4a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B4A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3