Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5609bb59ad17cd7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 00:15:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6f33a94912e699fdbaeef0d01481c0d3 SHA-1: d4370fb428fd37bce24ebea385143c9df289b96d SHA-256: 5609bb59ad17cd7d3496639234cf120fafd28614ba7cbfeee3f9783d1c4c93c6
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also flagged by the critical heuristic, suggesting a lure to a 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.
  • 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=behen+hogi+teri+song++pk In PDF document text
    • http://xuled.comprehensivewellnesssolutions.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413418/rovivatipazi-botugisuda-pijuput-lipajojudowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jenniferocook.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398406/4742100.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/1/0441/4432/8856/files/gabawazulanitevosixi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5985/3977/files/fewazimonuritediti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2843/8427/files/virefozasibedike.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5199/9637/files/mepodufotifowuxenube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0155/1771/files/73986985256.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6713/0534/files/78359919632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6297/6921/files/blank_coordinate_plane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4017/7317/files/46740314715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3370/files/military_college_jhelum_past_papers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8678/2369/files/87281784975.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_off00007f4c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F4C 4740 bytes
SHA-256: 97643cb5a438b31a0a4ee0c34583e206df6d200fb8bef06e9d63330fb2e6eca4
font_01_sfnt_off00008f61.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F61 14428 bytes
SHA-256: dc69f32c72f69b08589f060da716839958c32bea708403845cfa25ea867d8f98
font_02_sfnt_off0000bcb8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCB8 16204 bytes
SHA-256: a95eff378c135b1ab40d10b3cd1da1bafbc07f86005f57898d079c90d712ddbd
font_03_sfnt_off0000d1e5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD1E5 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f