Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0434a6abace84a9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 15:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 83ade747f491ddf87e382c1441d71cd1 SHA-1: 2bf2f68c1d4f7dd2110ed663a99bd26065d26e2a SHA-256: 0434a6abace84a9ade0203d4a13cdf225f67506699c173976ffcff3b99047642
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded document body text and extracted URLs indicate a lure related to translation services, leading to a redirector that likely serves further malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=translate+japanese+to+english+pdf+online In PDF document text
    • http://files.atyourfingertipsorganizing.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969204/tajorivezolokokekodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.teaaresea.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969357/2139032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stirling-lhs.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739404/rekesimonub_fasavidemowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.5starcustomlures.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739833/2592939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kowejuse.alexandracarlson.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/tasoziwakapiwonu.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/1/0434/7792/6040/files/administracion_turistica_y_hotelera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1011/3186/files/20031563253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0336/2975/files/27346610053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0255/1716/files/3845861077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/vamiduwomupiroke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9636/7511/files/15293456752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9590/8761/files/juwutunisopuwoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1620/9059/files/39378693163.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8933/8276/files/lapovutot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4609/2443/files/lutadikanegivowoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9231/8110/files/saguwubinu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2955/3575/files/nozedosolowusejukutaso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8320/9631/files/gejavukilutexodutijobopo.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_off0000701c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x701C 5328 bytes
SHA-256: c4163a28e09acd100d424086c081c8b62c05da423385e917461dad2ea704ae8c
font_01_sfnt_off00008237.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8237 10080 bytes
SHA-256: 5dd6fc509ff52ed83338fcd06b56471dda8cca9b3670158ad5143e20f5c92d55