Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17bd82dafad15fe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

105.7 KB Created: 2020-07-30 07:47:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 647dd0060ae88a81e6c33c50dab3d2d8 SHA-1: e7eb2b76f19f11a13f43a048388102ed1868fb52 SHA-256: 17bd82dafad15fe0828630a65f3132a692bab7f093a3292aa5922e1533ae50c7
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 associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'soda pdf business crack'. The presence of many external PDF links, some benign and some potentially malicious, indicates an attempt to generate traffic or distribute further content through SEO spam tactics. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=soda+pdf+business+crack In PDF document text
    • http://files.all4pawsdogrescue.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/9425829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.generalinventions.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380848/robufaxafumapolulexa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pennybrumbaugh.info/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970009/4fd0b227283.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/1/0430/7386/3842/files/26979279915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3295/2477/files/vijimapisobaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6146/1670/files/jejesojudo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5048/3368/files/semares.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8320/9631/files/wugunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2041/1303/files/kepesiweximobudiwidide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kesazemoluvumexon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4782/2236/files/sofojewedaneriv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6686/5302/files/55159213193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37872338034.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5122/0120/files/57622935270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/51560870002.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7987/4213/files/pazoluzikuxemux.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_off0001602a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1602A 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 9a82e3b0e8cf2b2d4d7d021d352c01f84b28691cea579d4838d8d7a42f179abf
font_01_sfnt_off000171f0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x171F0 11656 bytes
SHA-256: 2e81418d39f659eb3c804b0847bbc487186b7fa9f7291ed6a0a38c3e293f3d16