Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 044cc2c4c2e38af7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 13:39:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3b1e0497a371a851549bffd99ff7c7f9 SHA-1: f41388aba70acc82e7ffe15b7c9389cb0da94a03 SHA-256: 044cc2c4c2e38af72cec3f7ba0bfcfb35643e40019e8739f40acdee8a19b3117
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service that is known to host malicious content. The document body text and embedded links suggest a phishing lure, likely attempting to trick users into downloading further malware or visiting malicious websites under the guise of free content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

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=animated+characters+3d+model+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.timberlinebands.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/db73d5f46.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/1/0434/5865/8469/files/xedonezapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0311/7721/files/carcinoma_basocelular_tipos_histologicos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0750/0711/files/struts_tutorial_for_beginners_with_examples_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9143/5422/files/51476614490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4303/6053/files/vawogopox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0219/1269/files/wilma_goyne_overton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2639/8888/files/estudio_agrostologico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7038/2490/files/jorovimirabiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6591/8118/files/circular_economy_mckinsey.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_off00006469.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6469 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 181cee436062c84bbdf48d1c5a3a9459187145a1a596b577252ad452ae7ff6c3
font_01_sfnt_off00007696.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7696 10260 bytes
SHA-256: 3fce2084574235ece0298f3e7b8202eaa9eb846d14044573588501112b9c23f7

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