Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 39ee84d2cf82ed49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.9 KB Created: 2020-07-31 20:23:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4a637e7fbb83b859a63f44ab1d3a596e SHA-1: 91016e31c8410ce467b79425371cef03cd2305fd SHA-256: 39ee84d2cf82ed4945f0adebf786b6267efe7c3bf0f3c9545a0d94475c79f675
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm designed to attract traffic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the target URL, reinforcing the lure of downloading a manual.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=hamilton+beach+ice+cream+maker+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.unveiled-ministries.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407102/7732875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.smartweddingsandevents.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437666/3191024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.friendsnorthcreekforest.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682235/bafukazam_mipupezibipag_diveza.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/1/0433/1202/1662/files/54631608458.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7015/3113/files/59740231208.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1637/1867/files/mifavebumoledisutomoxemi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2833/3219/files/99248628268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0369/9615/files/tepeziranikeropilalorid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0083/1905/files/mezonuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5101/5577/files/govim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9083/6645/files/ribamebiku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5353/9747/files/70133564501.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1525/6738/files/56150744409.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_off00009d95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D95 5028 bytes
SHA-256: efbbbb473addf3c5423e1a5fe01325bb844cd799f88d94f23b426bc95e9ddf3b
font_01_sfnt_off0000ae7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE7E 10564 bytes
SHA-256: 8eef624d1e7a24bb6f9be9d3bdce6e6dbe95e158647bc6c509aecd168c9a1a2a