Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a594d1b101ac3fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 14:37:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b21e9dce166710f812262ec70748c36b SHA-1: 27706586d8bcaa7f22e4222aa87fdc9a3537c5d5 SHA-256: 0a594d1b101ac3fb60c0c7631a27b13bb0d50e0d472f1bfc47eaaa62805cc2d4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector service that is flagged as malicious. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for a game download, likely a phishing or scam attempt. The embedded URLs suggest the document is part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content.

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=city+bloxx+game+for+nokia+mobile In PDF document text
    • http://tekowubu.shopthehangup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453598/633ab211ff5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nosaxi.salonboho.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437657/9048838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alaskadalmatians.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857655/929fe9151128605.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nixonconstructionllc.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816202/zamadutetijasajapis.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/1/0434/0842/5123/files/94987308308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/2923/6645/files/amoxicilina_xarope_bula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4138/9720/files/75481626212.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/excuse_me_kevin_gates_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/62856854762.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/27330748941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1645/4305/files/56632279641.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/5110/2887/files/nxstage_system_one_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7506/7297/files/doctor_of_business_administration_thesis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6245/1611/files/setozogafobezasavumejepo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0429/7375/files/jupanesenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6352/files/gta_5_ps4_gamestop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1117/8649/files/11288798347.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_off00005054.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5054 5188 bytes
SHA-256: 8bd4e7890132314fd75000272c8920966130b43717504feeae90f0f44d46d027
font_01_sfnt_off000061fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61FD 13004 bytes
SHA-256: 5026f341eb6824152d7c2c1da157122a78cdaf64c324e1185d58b8213b18d540