Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d09bd572b3c2e73…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-09-16 20:50:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c67657d10b685e7b1f631f7a66d7b741 SHA-1: cfd7139cc7cbf637ae228f97c83af93427d1d09d SHA-256: 4d09bd572b3c2e73d4879982d8b2e2ddc4f555e60f6017cfe60c0d2f91c2c3a2
224 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector found in the heuristics, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to drive traffic to this malicious site.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=speed+versus+time+graph+worksheet In PDF document text
    • http://files.airsampler.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969429/8714990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jphono1.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302871/vujinokovokavikoreb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jugujaviz.princetoncounselingandparentingcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/74ee2b14b21b8e1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sumenghung.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683142/xirojike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://71c943b5-f205-42ab-b77b-05c277a7f3c4.filesusr.com/ugd/3225da_e59109502c8e4fe78743368439b87009.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://99555b4c-f22c-4442-8684-d605425a90e6.filesusr.com/ugd/3ddeef_538fab5ad21d48b08d4b0a77fcd0e212.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://c47a3bde-6c14-4fd0-a7b5-8612e93f81ed.filesusr.com/ugd/5ea691_119c6d3ec22f41408b652ec57b8d62ac.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5326/0706/files/mosaxawapofopetufapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/0561/6801/files/automated_answering_service_synonym.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7307/7409/files/31591089253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://d32d31ac-9967-4463-b20d-c17b89a17d55.filesusr.com/ugd/fedf23_b4554b15c23445c8a5fffb2bae38b40e.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://9db79a1c-4c53-4939-99e0-a3e68795b4a8.filesusr.com/ugd/a58502_23213174d94b4c59857eb6c85bef537c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://1df6b9de-a12e-4bf3-a531-b1b922509ff3.filesusr.com/ugd/b5aed9_29fc826e59824b8e9507300a3c5184c9.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000092cc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92CC 2828 bytes
SHA-256: 85b692c1c636aed9ab1240d2a7361179fdd6c0849396a06064984f922e967b4f
font_01_sfnt_off00009cc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CC6 5660 bytes
SHA-256: 57236370b69a53655e9cabdf2de4e87ea5479defa786229a47aced26b4198085
font_02_sfnt_off0000afec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFEC 10136 bytes
SHA-256: 72642a0f9c27079580c3ec8df40844a8adc18f8e1db7897d2a1ce644806b7cd7