Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1997f09b6adc7214…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: f2120e9ec2316c0730025431b1ee3a6f SHA-1: bf3fe2c0fb4b766c0bfa14702f7a00484e92a44f SHA-256: 1997f09b6adc7214dd28d35abcf081ce6fca25a800ff478f14df2ec0539a5aea
302 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a lure for browser extension installation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector found in the heuristics. The presence of a 'secret recovery' lure and a 'download button' suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into downloading malware or divulging sensitive information.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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.com/wix?keyword=wondershare+dr.+fone+for+android+tor In 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/1/0428/0087/3631/files/48161504822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/8849/6038/files/sozesovatufe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3391/7590/files/95670493271.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0805/5720/files/apraxia_da_fala.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4713/2063/files/ordering_decimals_percents_and_fractions_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e03b998dd02543e581a86a6f2010f241.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7273/2836/files/getapovenaxite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6788/2134/files/merriam_webster_geographical_dictionary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7908/9824/files/72300221417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_cf812c65d4eb4db1960c096e9414f587.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c0b427_2679cf241cd14ea5a97585380062c688.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_off00006e05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E05 5008 bytes
SHA-256: 134016cc07629dba510d6ff5d9ab57e2e3957bc5ecf333cc18a1e10d8a70a397
font_01_sfnt_off00007f16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F16 10264 bytes
SHA-256: 94132ac522924dda9ff060681c25c4a35f20ef6139c6039285c3106d79ed59bc