Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d8f8c6379973230…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 20:12:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 28de0a21125e1b8360ef5c15904b990a SHA-1: 61bd3f9f8cc99de09886a2cd2b9649b3fc39c467 SHA-256: 1d8f8c6379973230d3225c140e7953b70d7d1aec161dc9fcd5abe9982f9dd24a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to enrollment letters, aligning with the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content. The file is generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often abused for creating malicious PDFs.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=proof+of+enrollment+letter+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.libertymerchandise.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380305/nulasifufetor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nwavalanchesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/vogawuxe-dumosikukajof-gutizilaf-ribakulamusa.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/1/0429/6183/0037/files/bidaramud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6164/7262/files/17620295301.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0660/7012/files/86752491817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9204/2137/files/17174566941.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2668/5858/files/sinimabefanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9471/1203/files/xijaxapajapolarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0699/9203/files/anil_s_ghost_analysis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8179/3698/files/sefuziwevudijam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8799/4792/files/on_golden_pond_quotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4864/0418/files/kowujur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0363/3051/files/nine_knowledge_areas_of_project_management.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0012/6885/files/fedisosemo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7289/6672/files/14825299232.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_off0000a5df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5DF 2828 bytes
SHA-256: b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
font_01_sfnt_off0000afda.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFDA 4872 bytes
SHA-256: b386fbcb630aaac2f7bcfe67cecb519f65b503068390f5338a0cba932b8378ae
font_02_sfnt_off0000c04e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC04E 13256 bytes
SHA-256: fa5165341318c00ecf0d266f6767264aee62f0b825dbf9631149b928d221c6ea