Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58a05fa546d8288a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:46:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c3dcd78046308f68795b71f94c5f3ac1 SHA-1: 7d48e9f0e7d150916f927f51d468fe30aadba6dd SHA-256: 58a05fa546d8288a74b0c9a7709f54b6e109bde9920478a003b420f694f0dfa3
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is further supported by the presence of a visual download button lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that leads to the redirector. The redirector itself points to a link farm hosted on Shopify, likely to obscure the ultimate destination.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=1000+basic+english+words+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://nidog.lindahubbardart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775075/1783246.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shenandoahvabusiness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454670/4392185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bookertmusicguild.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164236/bubuzizuz_nawobozekez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garudu.multinationalministries.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/tiduse.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/1/0431/4916/4705/files/99827231715.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9338/4599/files/manevoresorakevigerokiwes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7328/2983/files/ethnography_meaning.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6464/7077/files/51174248852.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3070/8385/files/nisagiritawagebevunurudu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/marifurozijuzaledenikegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nakawefefaf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2753/7828/files/zerabopiresogozuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6029/1742/files/angina_de_plaut_vincent.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3260/0985/files/xawinakobolotumaragewo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0580/4698/files/57983401206.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1128/4885/files/xomixokakijakiwonuvi.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_off00004a59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A59 5748 bytes
SHA-256: a1f8a822d9b5bb75efb60689365aaab87aef55788d117c7a032961eb50bda5ce
font_01_sfnt_off00005de2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DE2 9600 bytes
SHA-256: 2f5a3bc140e05c331272efde71170376ac7908076f5fcec95a0c21cc4bb75018
font_02_sfnt_off00007f05.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F05 16096 bytes
SHA-256: 2fa4f296fe9e38b1bea2264e65e06c45fbbf4edfcb32b68fd436b1108ab95b01