Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ca2e04fbf106ca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 03:29:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97644603f51de4ceb10606330868eed6 SHA-1: 68478c638580ba40d0bc2e76ecfb22b40cbb3d71 SHA-256: 1ca2e04fbf106ca605e9a6c1cdb6c96f501ba05a229dce7018f9a964bc7171d9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as information about Android 10 and the Nokia 9 PureView. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms the link leads to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the document is part of a larger link farm, suggesting a phishing or scam campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=android+10+nokia+9+pureview In PDF document text
    • http://files.ildiamon.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775666/samubesarusuxugoxu.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/1/0430/0292/1111/files/fidalinegubomekatow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8120/1819/files/bhaskara_satellite_information_in_marathi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6381/2002/files/66293156074.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7461/7511/files/83258246577.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/0334/0968/files/field_report_on_yamuna_biodiversity_park.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8581/4177/files/76731579190.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2287/4781/files/69760807479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0047/files/font_gabriola_bold_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6903/1078/files/lewofunetiwaketoxod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9395/8560/files/compound_adjectives_list_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3430/1848/files/97559015192.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
🗂 Part of campaign: ildiamon.com 3 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ecd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ECD 5300 bytes
SHA-256: 625692c9078c137629efb0037ef7147b1f1fb0f9571b602ae6f93159e8bc0154
font_01_sfnt_off000080f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80F3 10480 bytes
SHA-256: 3f0cee2bb67d05f3495bc585652d9684cca3d3e433b429c583913c2c414ae5f2
font_02_sfnt_off0000a50a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA50A 16312 bytes
SHA-256: bf8f9ece8d9d74ce2d7a98a07ee1bb8f4056faf702b3b1702118181e85f1b939