Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 41c2490ab9d044b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 16:50:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 600c3721d40b61632bf5646c919a885b SHA-1: d25877e1de2ba7a37fa069c528423793f08e0070 SHA-256: 41c2490ab9d044b056bcecaa47311240d7292f7616c5fa5374e43ab62bb327d1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the text 'Hvordan � lage mat fufu og suppe' and a URL pointing to a redirector, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of numerous links to Shopify domains, as flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a tactic to artificially inflate search engine rankings for 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=hvordan+%25C3%25A5+lage+mat+fufu+og+suppe In PDF document text
    • http://files.tweetyssweeties.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680974/basirok_zofovogizezafa_veragurevaz_misovaduvan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.midcom-group.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775707/darewotubovaki_vorowepel_bewoxemeperal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obchaymarket.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740563/3700323.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5017/1554/files/wogodolurunuxajolavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0505/1029/files/82154734765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7207/8499/files/10920520626.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4503/files/wunekijinipifogudodav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2631/7473/files/56432203745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6418/0390/files/best_travel_guide_to_andalucia.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7991/5937/files/oxford_bookworms_library_epub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8834/6262/files/sebojudasa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5024/3995/files/algebra_1_sol_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3716/2646/files/19149239994.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000068cf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68CF 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 60221c680257206410cdfb3a19071c4a38e6f72c9ccef278a03a7c71bb8c730b
font_01_sfnt_off00007af2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF2 9956 bytes
SHA-256: bb766cd3d7ab5015834bc4c539dba19751a5b0b79334047540047a08ac100a0d
font_02_sfnt_off00009cfb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CFB 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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