Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 09d6aa9910ed25f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 17:02:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8947bceb6f88bcab77c0e5a14558c2b2 SHA-1: fb6982b074fa712ec9ab123c083b919cb5bedcfe SHA-256: 09d6aa9910ed25f377ae39cbb563e30a5c9b8ca4dee61ae01b9ae5a6cb6058d3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links to external resources, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the redirector heuristic, suggesting a lure for free downloads that leads to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=bible+theology+books+pdf+in+tamil In PDF document text
    • http://files.daniellerobidoux.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740444/fudevodawotudujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ps38rclc.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814346/3639177.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prismcounselingservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438128/wedavimulidix.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/1/0431/6787/5221/files/mikafewow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0407/5933/files/gidifiremawipugom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/rokeziwupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3438/5303/files/50279591717.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6367/0944/files/gogufeneliwemiweko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7309/3288/files/wumalem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8158/0188/files/xowopanivesebi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2312/2077/files/xumebalo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3885/0719/files/the_elder_scrolls_iii_bloodmoon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0473/8206/files/introduction_to_statistical_machine_learning_with_applications_in_r.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/daxen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/86699805993.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5930/5880/files/litupowufanikibunula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3262/5831/files/50706564134.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_off00005e1a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E1A 5716 bytes
SHA-256: b08fa87ceee9ebbc9eb95d28ed001f0b84b3a3c318a87fff775084ed55f1ad01
font_01_sfnt_off00007176.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7176 10316 bytes
SHA-256: cbcc969f24a63807e3e131b9810da61eec7c2f47dc4c1494500cb8618488f709