Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a0f25f2afeeadba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 03:13:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fa243409a4ca1cb55ba3132977b86577 SHA-1: 4995ef9c1df2fd13bb340212d40630fc2093f209 SHA-256: 4a0f25f2afeeadbacbd6035c6f49a4c285e57c39ce8405a1011e4714d78b4cff
222 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external links, including a malicious redirector. The document body and heuristics strongly indicate an advance-fee scam, luring the user with a fake guide and a download button to a malicious redirector. The redirector likely leads to further stages of the scam or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Malformed active-content stream length medium PDF_MALFORMED_EXPLOIT_STREAM_LENGTH
    A PDF stream that carries active/exploit-looking content has a declared /Length that does not match the recovered stream body. Malformed stream boundaries and length mismatches are common parser-evasion/supporting evidence around Reader exploit streams.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=ibps+guide+editorial+july+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://bigev.incolorartgallery.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384771/dekewiwodutawev-tenumino-diwoxewonozomum-tiguputa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.melissafloresdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814283/pusuxokakizadusirav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://javivo.stampgeneral.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775735/ec01e5.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/1/0431/6623/6834/files/bupozemid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3161/5909/files/29439383024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2107/2541/files/7561005735.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7398/8774/files/81952913637.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5654/5433/files/linfoma_de_burkitt_y_vih.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5109/0071/files/kukekuwekewakeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2738/1920/files/furomazoraw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/90640886332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4456/9242/files/rabujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2288/3735/files/vepabedabanezizodalisu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4891/8440/files/86954158828.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a92.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A92 5864 bytes
SHA-256: 877f6dc49a618c7ea04173959a4c5ee015fdbf0dbd4907a4d3592e82233eaf8a
font_01_sfnt_off00007e95.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E95 10588 bytes
SHA-256: 316a3e18445b4097cf19c2f6d89130443d42a2bff174c58e05e715f90129c9f7