Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a0e9b0191eaaec7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.9 KB Created: 2020-07-28 17:38:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a3e8ad8e3fb1033622f88f5f8d02b17c SHA-1: 8846d5405d1bf6aaca99ddfe0a202d4cbc7cc0d4 SHA-256: 3a0e9b0191eaaec77bae7fba1a75da6c2c04564bfe93cc4db93b4b211e8a874b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm'. Another heuristic flags a link to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of outbound links suggests a malicious intent, likely for SEO manipulation or to funnel users to 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.com/pify?keyword=maintenance+page+template+bootstrap In PDF document text
    • http://files.teamgerbs.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302910/folekelapelu_gajefowi_narubasaderevaj_fubojif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.raphastar.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775918/81aa9810fbb3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jandgguns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874207/1b2c7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.silverbackpacking.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636956/7784532.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nyelaw.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636632/wazinibofoluwij-xoxazoxow-sedisi-pitinavemiv.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/1/0428/5258/1542/files/18149724571.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/2857609843.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3031/4151/files/64152517912.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8638/1210/files/25105425214.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8418/4728/files/46540259924.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0925/3282/files/xuguxugafukoponapejil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5054/8899/files/50524200541.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29331550606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0814/8127/files/dunufogubikuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6187/0741/files/bonelupevulabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2521/0263/files/ronalamajexawogozow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0916/9815/files/vukafuwixegojawapuna.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3325/6345/files/4796570030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gifizazuxapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7135/7596/files/sadeporuwedasuxapeguf.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ad6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD6E 5184 bytes
SHA-256: 906b96f23c18c82b54e56679a44faf4d3130dcd7b60435182ce5a53f9585c9e0
font_01_sfnt_off0000bee7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE7 14372 bytes
SHA-256: f9551408fd7ee77280e66d125bcdec086f3a30a1b433bcf06b0d4f4753c56725
font_02_sfnt_off0000ec6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEC6C 17200 bytes
SHA-256: d0644663986ebbb812f7c2ba20ce6348cfa331a3ca32e70c41a12a21f1cf199f