Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 326c477ae1e26fe0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 17:13:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c1c50103e8ef05cebfd72df82d87d113 SHA-1: 737bc357e8ac4761feb334ad3ef13e9c17959603 SHA-256: 326c477ae1e26fe05b7cd5e1ae7f860d16bfa4e4fe1b1faddc5033efd1f6775f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes the URL that triggered the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting malicious sites by appearing to offer a specification sheet. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=sheet+metal+bending+machine+specification+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.supernaturalentertamitedproductions.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/visemomitowezij-fezaweku-xevut-kixivim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alexbuehler.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681970/9416970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.castleworksmotorsports.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775490/bopezoj.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/1/0431/3530/3831/files/72128982698.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9672/7957/files/46552669227.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1568/3744/files/16024417087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8070/4405/files/91024316824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8815/files/mamijowudifepokomo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3421/4561/files/srimad_bhagavad_gita_in_tamil_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/2128194791.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9200/9365/files/9509141707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/4077026649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7012/files/fopugajimivaluvuwebesox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fulefevizurosojasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5629/0206/files/transportation_engineering_and_planning_papacostas.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_off00005ffa.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FFA 5716 bytes
SHA-256: cf360e4e7e43b7ccb786c6f07140ef0a0a2247e5fa65cde67aff9cf46c95f2e4
font_01_sfnt_off00007345.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7345 10168 bytes
SHA-256: 90755a43d6a9d2c9627c28ed6afeddb53bcc543eced9f3ea263585661fe63af2