Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 082d2f13ed4d89aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:41:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 715f2cc46d0e30be58544a09ed97be54 SHA-1: 5eafb170d790424c33e3fddc527fcba661f24470 SHA-256: 082d2f13ed4d89aad0e6fd6da2ff15ea5233c7dc4b560d95617d83639c41516b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The primary attack vector appears to be a link farm designed to trick users into downloading potentially harmful files or visiting malicious sites.

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=importance+of+evapotranspiration+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.cedarbluffhoa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407102/1219379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tecumsehwoods.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775129/22fc0b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.northernboatwholesalers.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483305/datudatarafawurud.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/1/0438/6599/7472/files/katee_sackhoff_instagram.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0800/7072/files/dojub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8266/1526/files/xobovopososipixap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4190/5050/files/princeton_review_sat_biology_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5398/5442/files/morrowind_walkthrough.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5331/7272/files/prevention_and_control_of_water_pollution.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9651/4461/files/bbg_workout_plan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zupapinited.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3537/0407/files/63594503874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0870/5187/files/how_to_clear_chat_in_discord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0690/files/75256673476.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7862/2111/files/arduino_afficheur_7_segments_4_digits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/41235240797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3645/files/8719286997.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_off00009823.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9823 5264 bytes
SHA-256: 8e3e892710d85c5883d441c06a9ba3d53e20b4d99590f344dcc46dce0089cc99
font_01_sfnt_off0000a9f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9F8 10428 bytes
SHA-256: f640984d8ffd888048013628bff9421468db72641a6fde3466391bf2b3a3e5ff