Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20ddf8b3287b4d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.7 KB Created: 2020-08-17 01:59:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ad88a057316e0cd01b30e68cf23aced0 SHA-1: 1fb3a33958a03f3fc96cb50181504d7e7a7df52e SHA-256: 20ddf8b3287b4d811ec7e9da7711ad0fde1d83ff3359b52c39389eac8a313849
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and appears to be a lure. The presence of numerous links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious URL. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution behavior.

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=button+onclicklistener+in+fragment+android In PDF document text
    • http://files.teslphe.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740011/7428055.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/1/0428/8295/7478/files/barometro_de_fortin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5548/7905/files/98370768012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1655/2605/files/article_example.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0869/files/streamline_english_connections_workbook_b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0094/files/66664379105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1335/7211/files/kagumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0147/8307/files/65510891574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/bupotuzepuwijepudetivoga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9199/3500/files/16771573526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4830/4797/files/xemidubo.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008cb5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CB5 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 5f6e261312367ce2996a429f6522ba344f8aaf533634f10908032bdff43ebaaa
font_01_sfnt_off00009f2f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F2F 14404 bytes
SHA-256: 8ad8341f84bd0a7ceab25d78c99e0b37aae11de77dd273d837cc7e9432b6627f
font_02_sfnt_off0000cd58.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD58 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 9559dd1bd908241551916101fda3d445a26f5c4b506a1423f23393456f9d5940

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