Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 033dfb4d778450df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

74.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 18:53:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e1a58d7282dbfac35b8f47e76314a5b7 SHA-1: 3bb461902e7ff8a470e2ba1824d8e99bb9cdab63 SHA-256: 033dfb4d778450dfd46e747d5eca0a242b36c8ff22c8dda59ae6930bd9a27031
262 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to its use of a redirector link to an SEO spam site, which is also presented as a 'free download' lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that mirrors the redirector's target. Furthermore, the document explicitly requests 'recovery secrets' or private keys, indicating a phishing or credential harvesting attempt. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=mastering+blockchain+2nd+edition+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.windsweptwillow.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453068/vozewu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.incendiamotus.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437149/bepij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.getpacificapps.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739212/sezawupop-gifenu-dovijanup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kugavav.perthheart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070722/xozileti-mukusixew-nuzalofizum.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/1/0432/6470/4662/files/52971057883.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7542/0835/files/68151884447.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8809/9993/files/jifuvex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0714/8185/files/77788767840.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7447/7464/files/zukusinawigedokesat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/nogebizefov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9501/4056/files/77502543533.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovetutokukike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3967/7855/files/rutikojubujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0893/3540/files/fabekigetozewetimuwuke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1805/7885/files/fapevejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/71918212345.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_off0000d5d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD5D0 5852 bytes
SHA-256: 4b13b779468ca9e062ba13aa159c3c5d04df1f15b952e1bbcdcadf1a823d94f7
font_01_sfnt_off0000e9d0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE9D0 17068 bytes
SHA-256: 2f5bd1ff0ebb9c31b74a376bd7c5234eb26cc206b769b10a8b3422c6cd4b62af