Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5581a88518a42f01…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:33:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 555ed4fea0eb359d1cece27ff4f53651 SHA-1: 68f6ee9a570d2087cf4e5abc2640c3bbd0078204 SHA-256: 5581a88518a42f019885cce07cb40a4d6bca97bbc033c3913b5fe163a7357e18
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the text 'Apa appendix format example' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm designed to obscure the primary malicious destination. The embedded JavaScript likely facilitates the redirection or further payload delivery.

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=apa+appendix+format+example In PDF document text
    • http://files.sewakwelfaresociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814774/papiruroboxedir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wubodoka.webproxyforfree.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871395/nedurime_pinenates_zopukevup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dokirid.freebirdbooks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/2614673.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/1/0436/2852/7776/files/customer_centric_strategy.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6640/0673/files/9282190383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/12729031526.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5280/1943/files/fuwefijorijabu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6495/0945/files/96577406276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9124/7779/files/pexofifogakemawa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2230/9786/files/38235365001.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/7447/7221/files/android_bluetooth_bad_sound.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5041/7827/files/vubupi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4012/6614/files/jomupupixurovivajik.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006741.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6741 5068 bytes
SHA-256: 308f7c2a5ef0663c334f4032900f747a68444aa35e2f55189ec9f24721de7b6d
font_01_sfnt_off0000786a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786A 10060 bytes
SHA-256: 320bc99b2f9f27513cda92cd209f445f54b27d7b2e93f663f35270f8bce41727

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