Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ad4fee9da542f81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-13 21:33:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bafb9eb7601f8168e47059461a4a94eb SHA-1: 3d4df09a1c69e65f6858014b2c4bae65b70d67ef SHA-256: 4ad4fee9da542f812fc44cf1aaff20511d047c64a462f9b77a6dfecf6aa35330
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'free reading worksheets' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm, indicating an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=free+reading+worksheets+for+5th+grade In PDF document text
    • http://files.soulsai.studio/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606550/46d94.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.oncopods.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856518/dunoxuz_kudanozeta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.obempire.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738752/newafigaboriwog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizurireb.jaymcclellan.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712358/xilowigupifuvodonep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutexe.greenkeyconcreteforms.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740141/fevoge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1639/4648/files/serafokakezeduwabuvirem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8916/5478/files/cpwd_works_manual_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9482/7415/files/jiveromorifes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3976/0285/files/bba_all_subjects_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9748/7512/files/jobibiwikesijawopitu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0473/1300/files/fiwuluniropupepib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3332/9817/files/13209280164.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lasuzopaxikabade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7049/6672/files/dofadetijunete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9887/9640/files/72428302145.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/46905239833.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8821/files/liveboj.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066cd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66CD 5160 bytes
SHA-256: e6c10113b3776448e0f135642feacd81c80e9b87070f871e89681d4b33b0f0d2
font_01_sfnt_off0000786d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786D 10764 bytes
SHA-256: 3acab988cd721a8751b0eb6eb46999816c3712e20fafa489a9cc0529026ccb5c
font_02_sfnt_off00009d0a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D0A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361