Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 352d8097217b3789…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.8 KB Created: 2020-09-18 10:04:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5d36eb7b4752240b8a2e715342d340d8 SHA-1: bde763c3aa90c8e545a55522f03960e93bcae048 SHA-256: 352d8097217b37899e79f92bc0d69c0f6273eeb7d806c3fe4c625b42aaf1c93b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, likely as part of a phishing or scam campaign. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Blade and Soul' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a fake guide. The presence of numerous embedded links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content.

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.link/wix?keyword=blade+and+soul+force+master+guide In PDF document text
    • http://juromez.pauseminicassia.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302855/d20783e28.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.anneboring.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383655/4030971.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xolaluk.marksmadmenband.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695629/xedow-tijitugok-xupizudufasi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xiguvolus.amyabartol.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776428/jawizazanon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zidarifa.boonachepresents.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637419/f353beba.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/1/0432/0670/5312/files/47909842588.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6022/3397/files/gobelimenitemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6295/1065/files/33032010329.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9739/1261/files/69470981215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://7960d8b9-fcef-4c69-a0c8-1eebdabac003.filesusr.com/ugd/8a5fcf_6395c33143e14ea0a6fd9da3728c70cb.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3617/1688/files/bharathiyar_padalgal_in_tamil_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9755/5093/files/apprendre_a_parler_anglais_americain.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0486/0529/8853/files/26118708990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0922/0501/files/37485215477.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9780/8279/files/pdf_file_converter_free_online.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_off0000a08c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA08C 5388 bytes
SHA-256: eaf111e80e30e44cdbf94b3e2a676fc93eb7e27742870358bda9272a634cc63e
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2CD 10376 bytes
SHA-256: 8a3e80d40a176e0c40c4ba0de960609157e140e5eea18364edec26afff920b3a