Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f4b33932fa152aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.5 KB Created: 2020-08-25 01:10:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d04ebd6f06ae2ad621da4d2b87d7e9c2 SHA-1: 41a3876c01c107c87f38972134ffa73d67fcc52e SHA-256: 4f4b33932fa152aa9b2da792ab8153195c5296aa140891af11a7dfa6c0c1aa62
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to trick users into clicking it. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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=male+uti+guidelines+idsa In PDF document text
    • http://files.elementarynerd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438059/830230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://retor.interimarketing.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/fetofekunanu_lakemososu_nofaxele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jalabapof.crabhousefortsmith.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740316/db039d7c8b3.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/1/0433/9892/2392/files/puguzepegenozano.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5214/6587/files/sadobogex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2111/files/10408550789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5788/2022/files/80800052434.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7753/3856/files/teduresitexonopa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8349/7623/files/c._p._u_information_in_english.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3902/3526/files/11763447489.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/4741/3910/files/beginner_english_grammar_test_with_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8171/2287/files/31857833881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6104/1559/files/gefawuxowinebapade.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3638/5181/files/60125007439.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000154f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154F4 4672 bytes
SHA-256: 9314276d07810bb94bc71d3eb3a20892cbd04242d73c62e7e99abeacf61d5315
font_01_sfnt_off000164e4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x164E4 15704 bytes
SHA-256: 06a78bf726767dde17563dd65417ab0d697f72d169b9e2970c7cbb5ac7eb5d21
font_02_sfnt_off00019586.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19586 16148 bytes
SHA-256: ebaa9d42c58e3fd25c8264bcf4ef2319fee467c92cf53dcc1f377a20fc8d39b0
font_03_sfnt_off0001aa7e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1AA7E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2