Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57dc08fa923149cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:40:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d561b1373410125b7c5e2a3908699fa SHA-1: 007cd2d037cf45291fb445f5617b091d0738c9f8 SHA-256: 57dc08fa923149cdaef3dd187c5425284c08e7f408401f058461bf690d009fe3
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains. The primary malicious URL is a redirector that appears to be disguised as a link to 'past simple regular verbs exercises worksheets'. The presence of multiple Shopify links suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious destination or leverage seemingly benign domains for distribution.

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.cc/wb?keyword=past%20simple%20regular%20verbs%20exercises%20worksheets In PDF document text
    • http://files.triglavpark.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453111/1083897.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.atlantadentalanesthesia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455883/najikenusapijevofifu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.danielmckeon.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438180/7565198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cleanfieldproducts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379578/1860198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.cpabonjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969018/lejiluzuk-zafajej-fudozevomefe.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/1/0432/0247/8237/files/cricket_phones_walmart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/63993153491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4946/0636/files/nutakumedupofub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8582/4154/files/velafisilaguz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1206/3391/files/80617092479.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7658/files/65130715411.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7241/4106/files/sagogurirazabokuramiwe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8439/9270/files/nobazakejeroroxodevavi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8060/5077/files/carboxylic_acid_reactions_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6874/4087/files/16625140795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1392/3228/files/free_chess_books_for_beginners.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0819/5751/files/bhagwat_geeta_book_in_english.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000057f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57F4 5772 bytes
SHA-256: 6f2ebde9a978679b272d566edf997fe403f082bae818f79a6ca7ea764acc84e4
font_01_sfnt_off00006b83.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B83 9556 bytes
SHA-256: 0aef5c3e485959073a38c74323cdd324e352f94c125fb3981b45f5a2aa5c624e
font_02_sfnt_off00008c85.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C85 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 313c3940a6f4aae92ceaa1b1a843de6e6f13411355a457aba6e018c383fce54c