Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b5e5ec15d7a3835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.8 KB Created: 2020-07-23 15:03:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8e512a3189c4942917b7647fa5180c77 SHA-1: 3949fbdbcd823b345c4becd68af3ad1224c8288c SHA-256: 3b5e5ec15d7a383538aa59192232179d5694f27111d1fbeff9b47fab4a582dba
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further suggests a large number of outbound links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.cc/pify?keyword=hikmah+kisah+ashabul+kahfi+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.randypartinconstruction.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453902/382766.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.radfordcoffeeco.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071164/zamogiwuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.innerresilience.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695543/3502152.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.buildingfutureleaders.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775521/9923270.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theaterfreunde-siders.ch/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738719/wasasefupig.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/1/0427/4877/2519/files/gajilinokotevap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5189/2381/files/98701714827.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6274/7548/files/xewetolokotizivanetokufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6858/7174/files/belowariwalizazavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9249/9877/files/gebifibanabiwitopijomujed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/28650507632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/vakizajidibipume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2523/6121/files/94239858970.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9432/7974/files/84302258338.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2219/5608/files/siturofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9894/8255/files/lebabulexusodazagi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3355/8168/files/62335502284.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_008_off0000e180.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE180 29216 bytes
SHA-256: d98cbe323bbc89fd677d25dabd4d0f8f926f226e2d8fc6f762abce4e504362ec
font_00_sfnt_off0000ae83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE83 4816 bytes
SHA-256: 062486104daba0613e2a144e3a46581b942ec0036fef1ccc05861041390d4bbf
font_01_sfnt_off0000beba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEBA 10112 bytes
SHA-256: 906bb1c68760c4f2e8dd49d2917cf5c0ca0e4a080b9d6ea466fe9123d9cf8654