Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a1198241c481c61…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 09:38:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6b06d6b6ea25c8210418e8c63ef1627d SHA-1: 752729b4743e4f20a50f9e5a8308ae8c174012d1 SHA-256: 4a1198241c481c61bebd5d92e2635b5474eea5cd3f954bb18e8253674414db7c
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a visible link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to a 'personality plus test pdf'. The 'SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND' heuristic indicates the presence of instructions or visible command text involving Windows execution tools, suggesting a potential secondary stage or exploit execution. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, as flagged by 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'.

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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=personality+plus+test+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kpcdesign.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682868/3198935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vonuluxa.onmelights.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/7647939.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnthomsbehaviormethod.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379718/705ee1d709.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/1/0431/5545/6149/files/curl_content_type.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3749/9302/files/84335798238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/munununexarusod.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5519/4011/files/zufufisagigik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0720/3739/files/85267427957.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2975/8103/files/60668812463.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6880/7586/files/beasts_of_no_nation_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8000/8355/files/nonagud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5530/0249/files/60280075500.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8667/4088/files/cadver_exquisito_agustina_bazterrica.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431In macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005846.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5846 5140 bytes
SHA-256: d3b3e26abd210d42734020e759ea16d2b476773242e9d41aa366b44e5ae4837e
font_01_sfnt_off000069d9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69D9 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 93ac20f1a1d09e7893bb906448f877630e64f6a4723c763eab9d52f4df355df7