Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d35e4fdef603bf8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 04:47:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5def842ca2c145b1424b97c106046409 SHA-1: aefabe9ac4f32780816273d77e2b12c98416f490 SHA-256: 3d35e4fdef603bf825e6f3f611199bf61ab69ca6c643f39cdc2afc74c86f97c0
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, disguised with a seemingly relevant keyword. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous other PDF links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains the malicious URL and several other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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/wb?keyword=congregational%20prayer%20in%20islam%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.henkvantwillertandventodonorte.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383544/xebosaxuparaj_xatetiwidaju_jewigo_samebelek.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vector-business.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453821/musujigex_pavagumilowebe_dajunu_dedizi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.albertaorff.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069860/patokaretel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.noreallywhatareyou.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775304/9e0ab.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/1/0437/7539/3946/files/kaleshwaram_project_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2657/9610/files/96973275015.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/0761/1804/files/hp_12c_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2632/5409/files/56965380751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7904/9121/files/bagusivaledevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1566/6840/files/lojuxumaregexajinukoloze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2756/9576/files/96989531453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1172/6750/files/fluid_mechanics_solution_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0802/2938/files/17449960071.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0124/9955/files/nonafuviti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7296/9109/files/rusakegifefozexapomenutip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9462/1862/files/83820525196.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6109/2255/files/nature_and_scope_of_business_finance.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9105/8070/files/75001311402.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_off00006e3a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E3A 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 24b58ddb69cb1db37f66556fdfbeb8f58dba1ce62ea677350860b9b694af1355
font_01_sfnt_off0000806d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x806D 10516 bytes
SHA-256: 1db7452d1111c2ec47e3d1221b2b38ad6ffd20f651b13b65242c775812f92f49