Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1982e609b044ac11…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 02:08:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: eb5a3a6516508fbd4ce996dd0db79d96 SHA-1: 1f9e58b975f8f9d12780bdfe6c1583039a56e8d8 SHA-256: 1982e609b044ac11778d79d0d28bc6d92305c57420fc687ef562a15debee37f6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links designed to appear as legitimate downloads, but the primary link redirects through a malicious SEO redirector. This redirector leads to a Shopify domain hosting a PDF, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of multiple external links points to a link farm strategy.

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=angle+of+depression+and+elevation+worksheet+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.heroscholars.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453560/8513089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gusotu.fastandforeverfoods.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857315/d1225d73772.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.everyday-buddhism.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412858/vekobikuniviwa-pugadafedenewo-xelij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jifit.aishaperez.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/09c786dd5.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/1/0429/8702/8641/files/maxuli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0364/9954/files/52800128318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4927/8875/files/geographical_information_systems_and_science_3rd_edition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2549/7250/files/clinical_pharmacology_and_therapeutics_lecture_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7679/7081/files/mixogeriwawixebapadobus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/tofuw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6377/1293/files/burket_oral_medicine_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0352/files/23287462788.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/pedim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3010/9593/files/sijuxefin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9373/8143/files/6468881687.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2385/9873/files/liroleturuwuxizerewag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8126/1466/files/48760297689.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007cdd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CDD 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 4aba2bb845853324476be69e5ed1bf4ff35002942389efac2b843cac1129f0e9
font_01_sfnt_off000086d8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86D8 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 1e93c71aba5f784f4a9b61ece4c962414ec5cbc580fc65dc610a48f4d6bed9a3
font_02_sfnt_off000099af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99AF 10000 bytes
SHA-256: 3724dcae40992bb382e376578e373e9af615393a9a72ca4e27d71a9aadeec34f