Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 40a0c5fbdc76edbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:11:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a5b674737b5378a49e83bb5e133041c9 SHA-1: 1cd741fbbe30d6a3d99a09f6c2579bbcc1578df4 SHA-256: 40a0c5fbdc76edbc03670a2f8d194cda762117f0f3557cc43359d2e47a90d365
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a redirector to a URL associated with malicious activity. The document body text, though partially corrupted, mentions 'aac file editor for android' and includes the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=aac+file+editor+for+android In PDF document text
    • http://files.dlrconstructionco.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738741/genabumabexa.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/1/0437/8725/5970/files/99626910452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/70945418412.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6644/8277/files/map_iterator_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0642/6275/files/sasasosipite.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/48880371243.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5680/7586/files/conducta_normal_y_anormal_definicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2352/8099/files/tovewi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kovutuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5308/0985/files/canada_lottery_application_form_2018.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8627/4977/files/dowubulojeko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6059/9701/files/model_cerere_concediu_crestere_copil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8557/6857/files/politik_identitas_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0940/0214/files/zafojifosivikugovama.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_off000067b3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67B3 4828 bytes
SHA-256: 6bed0c3433bbe16f513bf32c890953b96549f97c3b475f5f3939e78084dcbe9d
font_01_sfnt_off0000781e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x781E 10548 bytes
SHA-256: c6c9b7f0b2729b292d4084feb9ae7f309f1a1090a4cda7266ca6969737f6d43d

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