Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b44b8a53dc3b8c5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 06:47:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 67fa8349a5bdd20378659920fb07dc46 SHA-1: f9b0c89f2ee5184886bcfc83479fd2fc9be22691 SHA-256: 3b44b8a53dc3b8c59a8c06e6e32e5d5e8d143d3870f4d8eb1bd719be4ba9d0cd
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a job description template, aiming to trick users into clicking it. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms the link leads to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many pointing to seemingly benign Shopify PDFs, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND heuristic suggests that the document may contain instructions for executing commands, potentially to download and run further payloads.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=customer+service+associate+job+description+template In PDF document text
    • http://jozupam.crrcinc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454215/tuzem-vaseviv-zawezok-bokikugetoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gwionraven.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739776/4916943.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.taichinyc.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969699/2601755.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/1/0435/9441/6290/files/english_grammar_book_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8165/3655/files/61244072869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6567/9776/files/31075505860.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8228/5216/files/65777674556.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4566/5433/files/9397252170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8071/1325/files/sasenesozukud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1592/0024/files/coenzyme_q10_benefits.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7664/0156/files/powershell_impersonate_user.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3563/files/futexefomisamevenelexe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8017/9107/files/public_sector_accounting_and_finance_textbook.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8004/6997/files/raritawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5868/3291/files/meio_ambiente_e_sustentabilidade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7853/2758/files/32254633073.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/fiIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E14 5400 bytes
SHA-256: 8edf9901cd00c351173e5d45b29d31002fc55ba25c416ebd5fb308f04ec65486
font_01_sfnt_off0000705a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x705A 9964 bytes
SHA-256: a06a232e6a42243e8fa8903b3616e1c8d693d980a0f476f64a1e036a37053b67