Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45a3cdac90b08aef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:21:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b9a02e9d6085d51f65327080a20db45b SHA-1: 2fd2fd407b7a3b8ce12b0fa0b9ecb9ee08d2c797 SHA-256: 45a3cdac90b08aeff1e09c3fcef0ba988ee66508d03caa773e7208cad8d5d67a
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded links and a visible 'download button' lure, directing users to a redirector URL. This redirector then points to a large collection of PDFs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or phishing campaign. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the presence of redirector links confirms a malicious intent to direct users to potentially harmful content.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=argala+stotram+pdf+in+sanskrit In PDF document text
    • http://files.fellowshipmsc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710745/1126032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mikaylamac.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738823/femajifaboz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.biblereadingmarathon.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739564/3f146005cfb1ab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn 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/1/0429/0835/2679/files/5039576275.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9772/5864/files/74652171235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/kuzesiragabuzoxijime.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0636/0730/files/94199610812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4388/9052/files/faposu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/xubopawipojowixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8706/9335/files/89118479664.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9538/3446/files/13211313855.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/laloxifanagofuzutam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9920/8346/files/tisozik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0595/2671/files/5622662358.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/paxotaxazojulilinitulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8850/2174/files/54812918301.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
    • http://www.geocities.com/mitra_anirban/hobbies.htmGNUIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmRegularIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off0000c94b.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xC94B 17264 bytes
SHA-256: e8ee6e21a3e96c258ea05da51603c170b08e3e5b3114762cb4521575efcf5124
font_00_sfnt_off000089ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89AC 5416 bytes
SHA-256: 0718088069222451b5d9e389dc21663c6f70399a084c6be9f5292c42f7f05139
font_01_sfnt_off00009bff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BFF 3772 bytes
SHA-256: e2c7bb3c6d2fbc6b9680c858ce58af9e5cd0e4fbc18f33bdd2ad1d5654d08a87
font_02_sfnt_off0000a7a2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7A2 9768 bytes
SHA-256: e09607497770065f4fc79d5cf6e2190559808d082ee87b3be44ed3e725bbea84