Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 097aa909e7a20e70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:03:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b3b39dd50ed4d9e91c70dc02dd29affe SHA-1: 81eee5621e990618eedd41dee7ab10b297dced0e SHA-256: 097aa909e7a20e705a6a75e03b5e9ae87fd91f0ae20239d036e87ce8211a7867
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to a redirector infrastructure known for distributing malicious content. The primary lure appears to be related to 'blockchain revolution', attempting to trick users into downloading further content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of multiple links to redirectors confirms a malicious intent to lead users to harmful 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.cc/pify?keyword=blockchain+revolution+don+tapscott+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.jordanbeeks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438604/vafuwoxenota-ribiraxaporuzur-jusatafesipewa-zomegis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.altadenalive.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163976/52b92813bfd2fd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.3rdpointproductions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739987/relikewigeda-visos-revafitosur-paxole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://beked.calzadoleonsr.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813108/947c55a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smokedearthceramics.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398367/jezedixar.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/1/0431/6092/8405/files/79814104937.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8474/1798/files/bupunefewovimaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0141/3785/files/large_treble_clef_staff_paper.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7986/8320/files/noteburokemitejes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5434/2042/files/azhakiya_tamil_mahan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6159/8616/files/super_mario_64_star_road.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2190/9662/files/nobesuwezorugiforerudi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0803/2922/files/97070308730.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7767/1843/files/gizosatuzitosabal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8679/1334/files/35680410444.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/kegarorojexatipesag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0011/0999/files/23870855080.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_off00007103.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7103 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 5a56aed3af8d16ef5a231378c07fb7df27ba555abfb39c11479139a897749076
font_01_sfnt_off00008373.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8373 10428 bytes
SHA-256: 269ad7eb1c93d84d067a4fcaab2691a3d7c13e3be17d903a406df1701ff26ea4

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