Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0460af40b9869f3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 10:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8aab4fc7505a797ea0b2c25ec817268a SHA-1: 2949729fb1f78c056aec92a92eb5bcb77fffb8b8 SHA-256: 0460af40b9869f3bc1266117268dfdb6d6803818f1569770339301795c78c5a2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are likely intended to trick the user into downloading further malicious content or visiting phishing pages. The ML classifier 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.ru/pify?keyword=gst+tax+information+in+english+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.chattanoogabahai.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813646/kafaxetanopimu-vunixexiwapem-goleli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yogachicanada.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739155/goxetupireboji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lubbockchurchofchrist.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775309/fugawuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.maryclaresartwork.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378776/b37c620639d0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rewizuka.circuitocampoatravesdipgra.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/degegajegujik.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/1/0437/8640/4000/files/vuvufiwotirudunoneb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5636/4711/files/jufova.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9599/9129/files/5548021999.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7844/5206/files/61399948336.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lezoxaxus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8701/0715/files/divokavojawuvexofom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4444/6118/files/pdf_to_ms_word_converter_ocr.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0833/4744/files/amazon_business_strategy_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/0984/5911/files/solid_wood_platform_bed_canada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3314/1146/files/39798940179.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9823/4270/files/bikekelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0300/9434/files/exame_de_caritipo.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_off000071ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71AE 5552 bytes
SHA-256: d4aed72213a1a58861ca3ea04fb59dae10847b12b3306095e6f8c1554f1169e2
font_01_sfnt_off0000846b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x846B 10208 bytes
SHA-256: 41ec69d7b90d56cf58479b84281e617f7a47590139693753c1500d745352a967