Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0b3540a0168a932c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:31:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: dde2d71bab50cecd46649c580009d13e SHA-1: 43f4022efe0138f6728d63caae22e71525115098 SHA-256: 0b3540a0168a932cac561064106f6b77083a1fd6e847cc6f32d386c3644f420c
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The embedded document body text, though corrupted, contains a URL that matches the redirector found in the heuristics. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=coolie+full+movie+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.tylergulden.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816096/rabuzo.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/1/0435/0240/3750/files/agm_service_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4435/5739/files/jutazexonulaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2176/2723/files/10_000_reasons_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3124/8541/files/12736516591.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7927/0561/files/.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4458/0002/files/certificado_medico_bolivia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0641/8331/files/upcoming_bank_exams_2020_20_full_list.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7918/8118/files/kill_all_node_processes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1442/1653/files/biofeedback_definition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4248/7963/files/zadalorikinimupotategu.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008de0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DE0 2988 bytes
SHA-256: ff7043a75879f0c79b51f0b03cdb08fb8d78550efccea71092d33c2cc21f6589
font_01_sfnt_off00009893.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9893 4492 bytes
SHA-256: 544363fd1625e857b880816092174556abc171efffffb4f7080f5c02215a9ece
font_02_sfnt_off0000a7c8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7C8 14088 bytes
SHA-256: 54c88ec55dcb2537955914982610897489272054ea62b36039eae87f40413afd
font_03_sfnt_off0000d167.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD167 16028 bytes
SHA-256: 8345d1cc2b6b461b856d0454e2cf67edf5851291b6d0ebf21a7da0c9813a2b7f