Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ae1c029621a7080…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 02:40:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2f7cf04a5c86c92a594f6a6343058962 SHA-1: 9f0942bc944044f3bcea8b721df687b2ee4ca620 SHA-256: 0ae1c029621a7080af66b270181abf72a8358ebb4911ce843be18a79b6fe9f67
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links further supports the SEO link farm heuristic, indicating an attempt to manipulate search results for malicious purposes.

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=bolo+em+forma+ballerine In PDF document text
    • http://saxawod.g3valeting.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071252/bepitojibexazaxozat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nitigubik.bandstofans.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406665/jisojogagavudib_rikodivoton.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.biancasams.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636642/4638240.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/1/0437/1913/1285/files/81419490896.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/the_canterbury_tales_translated_by_nevill_coghill.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0402/5242/files/biopsicologa_pinel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3607/4396/files/65241631251.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5544/7202/files/fujakofew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1518/0188/files/zarudisegofizu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6141/8913/files/administrative_law_south_africa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7675/4344/files/36705527292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21533622499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2742/3654/files/41017184766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1266/9089/files/petawuriwijapibukadesi.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_off00004361.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4361 4924 bytes
SHA-256: bbf5924ae3815ff3842436c6d1e86193ee108248cdc3e5b2d223dfeb89f9fa91
font_01_sfnt_off0000540e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x540E 8648 bytes
SHA-256: f84977de3ec674e8f0eea885396f9a0e5fe8dc62d54310403597611853bc0b3b