Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d51582535abe2c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-28 06:45:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 052451f3bb7095a1b63e26e5736012b6 SHA-1: b7f16fbca22b76ff354faf59f656e73e66b2c9e4 SHA-256: 1d51582535abe2c1f633f940a22be9723850477238b8eec4438983a2d4b11a8d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The primary attack pattern involves a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.ru/pify?keyword=blood+of+a+thousand+stars+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sdicebox.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/ronobujudixijubes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gibeno.tarnaturals.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814170/4056958.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/1/0427/5326/1724/files/tuxudazelerakimivega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3292/0739/files/geribumarafagawugapig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9162/4097/files/86006376181.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/2090/2553/files/bill_nye_biodiversity_worksheet_answer_key.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4416/7064/files/xanavopajil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3116/7137/files/minecraft_ghost_skin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5706/0769/files/xesororinepizisedegukevow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/nimavovija.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1833/6925/files/novena_de_aguinaldos_colombiana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0255/1716/files/cisco_jabber_for_mac_pro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6855/5415/files/kupumosawogure.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_off000067a6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67A6 5180 bytes
SHA-256: efa005503c83865e1524aee552df0e562b1f31b7a26d54972b7c24b1168c8692
font_01_sfnt_off0000793a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x793A 10288 bytes
SHA-256: cae064372f9fa206d98d97740ac4da2995fe36e8ce33d64e6834a4c39edf4aa8