Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2145662716300504…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:03:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8054183f94c7ff3afc4ca483048c62d7 SHA-1: 77e7f174ca98adb760b216ed180a93f150110892 SHA-256: 21456627163005042ebe5a97980f78b61e1b75257a3c43310058afa5e393d1e9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Adinkra symbols meanings pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of a link farm further supports the 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=adinkra+symbols+meanings+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.vnchha.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071240/dcda938399c.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/1/0431/5673/4109/files/77296115879.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6055/1070/files/vujipekiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5656/9249/files/momurunok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5118/6336/files/kukosukavusevizaweminigi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4298/7423/files/just_eat_plc_annual_report_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3598/9915/files/56789784749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6016/5797/files/90697264094.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/kosebanolefikiroka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8666/3070/files/nacionalismo_econmico.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4414/3253/files/tuvolagusigometurefevi.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_off00006299.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6299 5656 bytes
SHA-256: 9a1f14eceba62a4ec00eabea80152669adaa069c15e44409d50a6546ad88b24f
font_01_sfnt_off000075c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75C6 10308 bytes
SHA-256: c9c8f5731f4c59822ec4685eb4ff2c80c216b308b54813e9ecc5d68c7cd270ec