Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20e59f8275bdfd7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 19:36:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a810e8ae994be6ada16f827b733f0e22 SHA-1: 42afb9af9f6aaaeff39ddec6eb3144a7db6b0d85 SHA-256: 20e59f8275bdfd7abc93cfe4acaad33ae0509a22a7fb246602964c4b5c94ea1f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and appears to be a lure related to music. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or distribution. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=waltz+in+a+minor+chopin+pdf+piano In PDF document text
    • http://files.mortlakeartshow.com.au/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163872/a30982817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dusuluf.davisbaybc.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/jevosaputadomudutaxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wc911.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680784/zafalunoburol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wickedladiesbeeco.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681586/2867730.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/1/0432/3095/3630/files/64735395565.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dutevitijenunolekegek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1306/1277/files/42817989933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1384/8731/files/punim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29331550606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9459/8047/files/64195251110.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1536/2984/files/broken_blade_of_heroes_vanilla.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6337/7048/files/59099926457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7656/7711/files/peraturan_akreditasi_rumah_sakit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7349/3406/files/78786360660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4230/7239/files/atonia_uterina_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6318/0438/files/classification_of_vowels_and_consonants.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

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000055e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55E2 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 33c2b4e3316c53261aaf7f9b16c0cc2dd9531c5832569dbb984c3a64f17cd85e
font_01_sfnt_off000067c4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C4 10204 bytes
SHA-256: 506680b440f8a54533902c2e4fc360bd961d5cbec05ac6db97d61d4919d33197
font_02_sfnt_off00008afd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AFD 17268 bytes
SHA-256: a53240878560bec67b4a42c0fa3ec1d40d73cc0ecf111e3f548d47568884d1fe