Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 483eaeebf48581c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 18:10:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 83693f741e27937ba4c0db129544c5cf SHA-1: 56c82d5d552bf6d4d111f766f3c952e333ff8f8f SHA-256: 483eaeebf48581c2db620520a9517c0978fe7eb4ef78f3ba27ad28e2772e89ac
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to this redirector, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. 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.ru/pify?keyword=astell+kern+cd+ripper+mk2+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.guidedchildrensadoration.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607131/34b0fa7.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://roledose.myinnatehealth.co.za/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409909/1259752.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ricrodriguezfiction.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407178/juvalunit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wallitcreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969059/xawikimakiposimu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.opentle.orgIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0087/9515/files/php_back_button.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0885/2117/files/tudipazarepolumi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30106301206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7851/5864/files/ravelawenovamivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7395/4204/files/11175623574.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7332/0600/files/jofadovukovavenina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8220/3811/files/23846398771.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/49621183567.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5921/6533/files/getting_things_done_online.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5261/4311/files/anywhere_you_go_song.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/7153/8087/files/lagu_betrand_peto_sahabat_kecil_planetlagu.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.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005853.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5853 5404 bytes
SHA-256: 1980743977fadce9ad5cb1b59df85e64a5e3543a39e3cc720e6fd0f916adddf4
font_01_sfnt_off00006a88.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A88 6124 bytes
SHA-256: 406d9c14f76b4e0c27267bc63fa971fc1ebe99cb7b762b0c35436d2afb2f8dd6
font_02_sfnt_off00007a71.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A71 10160 bytes
SHA-256: 650fcdf6d5642c4bbf38bb7a0601d317e0b774375d738dd26b5676220d05533b

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