Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5944fca4d290556b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:46:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a0b297bcf6bcd6a30bb23335f81c6d37 SHA-1: 95aca7e4ee088925713de8bcaaf673134949cd2e SHA-256: 5944fca4d290556bc8bd31c6dad18d5a07f58fb49bd761f1dac20a14c4a21c03
210 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify, and one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Oracle bpel tutorial pdf' and a URL that matches the malicious redirector. This suggests a lure to download a fake tutorial, which instead leads to malicious infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=oracle+bpel+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.gassafecertificatesplus.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775084/a380bc004960ca6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pujesafe.southseattleoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/3793975.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tarum.1932auburnsedan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775162/403169.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/1/0439/8841/8718/files/gixolenurimovadununobol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6903/1078/files/ledapazupuwawatosil.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5016/2583/files/keto_diet_recipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8210/4478/files/mechanical_drawing_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2454/files/linukato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5845/3918/files/neletenupapo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/75395993599.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3432/8735/files/physical_chemistry_experiments.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0840/files/fubugapafuzapewugovikades.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4038/0840/files/book_folding_patterns_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2255/7082/files/arithmetic_sequence_word_problems_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0848/2710/files/98210605428.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b2c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2C5 5140 bytes
SHA-256: 6bfa2441395854d9f24388e92e07edb9674a92c7f1fd6143956580a62f52a504
font_01_sfnt_off0000c443.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC443 10368 bytes
SHA-256: 714ea26f8f38b4ee6a1251b94c676dea0351ade8daf56de6fd1f5d6853dcb990