Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04f61cbe38776eb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:19:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 908b4c29ab62179455bacdd4a9d06033 SHA-1: 155d30069e035c3cb8454766b3ef76c227ff1d80 SHA-256: 04f61cbe38776eb464d3e03130571f087030e4b2c64bf34428440efbde6a25fa
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file contains multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for free downloads, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate malicious destination.

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=borns+10000+emerald+pools In PDF document text
    • http://tedila.theitalianbridge.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856772/9629280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gritfitnessny.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606822/kazukonij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.troutbum.ca/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710655/046c6686a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.backdoormission.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637273/f40cf99.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.honoraryislander.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384638/nujupelamikino_luwosasoraxid_zelatamezagu.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/1/0429/5750/4668/files/zaxobonazazedekapopegujun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8305/4757/files/ramif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3537/0407/files/soviwetisujagem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8893/7120/files/13300588308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6789/0069/files/merizewuwabagemupeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8406/2622/files/law_and_order_svu_opening.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9258/2293/files/jedatidusum.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3263/2730/files/calendar_november_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4885/files/gibuwilozuwerunibo.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_off000069a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69A7 5348 bytes
SHA-256: 3c88a01e0cfa63755840cf6002f95f2fe027cbb134dbdaa7c26f4aace82d4c7d
font_01_sfnt_off00007bb7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BB7 10312 bytes
SHA-256: 99972f0a35b89a9c50519e54e72eac6b5c1caf263895618f357bd8bf56f0e22f