Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 44d3f533195b6138…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:47:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01be2c8a5fe48a1ffd359824a4fa92f5 SHA-1: f41183c2e6e0420e201291e38d90617376200182 SHA-256: 44d3f533195b61388d32da204d13ff0dc20d9c1b8f48fb2a28612c1a315d5a0f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, disguised as a worksheet. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics and IOCs. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wb?keyword=romeo%20and%20juliet%20act%202%20scene%202%20worksheet%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.emilydeckerdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776655/352919a22e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roominghouses.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071114/werenepaxuti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.spgallagher.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/visebaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rixuz.thenewgrassroots.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/joxekedupug_vumupuruxawibo_wilepubimisiwak.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/1/0435/4277/3914/files/56623005169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/26433336276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0266/6906/files/66757734929.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9060/8285/files/32815190623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6371/9574/files/23046070268.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26965864763.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2449/6286/files/3d_shapes_worksheets_grade_4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5601/9109/files/kojam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2795/4853/files/apache_score_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4963/2415/files/ninoburi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4591/1709/files/48380228581.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1705/1048/files/pedewowonoxezemadov.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_off000062e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62E2 5768 bytes
SHA-256: 1182bd4fa95358acfded32a03272c6e45a00503aff5908d8bf0be8693a9fbd3b
font_01_sfnt_off00007677.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7677 9844 bytes
SHA-256: 4946d41866d9ca0ba86a99657169082537984a6ab1cd491907b4f2aa288e9ee2

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