Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a097e6657e2e395…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:43:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b2a685c7dc02f0518b6f7652f2c57b5a SHA-1: 6b22323d85daad2c58fe4f85c9fa674be6482822 SHA-256: 3a097e6657e2e3953a04522384daa7498a2bdd288644db8e53274214eeb0a369
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of this link farm. The primary attack pattern appears to be a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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=bootstrap+css+grid+template In PDF document text
    • http://files.allencblack.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874647/tifuvurafodosomajit.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/1/0427/9376/2975/files/kudaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6556/5589/files/64943892441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4149/6981/files/79897743014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1460/files/mewigatopupiwowedaned.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6163/3439/files/zakejojuxefinufutoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6971/0241/files/51165148173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2071/4137/files/peminesiropob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6095/3249/files/burutebelufof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0428/1511/files/91509884742.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97253363073.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1966/4540/files/kituxanode.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F3F 5440 bytes
SHA-256: cf53de97c7152b516fba570b597386df755c799b030abf50f6f7e176d5bfe3de
font_01_sfnt_off000071a5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71A5 14748 bytes
SHA-256: ae9372b91186664822b6331e27287d892d3a863cf8a30902f3fb627ac42564b9

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