Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59e7b64ee491608a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 08:12:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 60e688ea4a40c060426e23d6be81f04f SHA-1: d8cfc1d2e765f2321e292cd6eadd76a6c8845114 SHA-256: 59e7b64ee491608a201913089e3b2a93663d501d615955cefce130ee29f3f406
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered this heuristic. The presence of numerous links, including to Shopify domains, suggests an attempt to obscure the final malicious destination or to appear as a legitimate document repository. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link analysis strongly indicate a redirection-based attack.

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.ru/wb?keyword=skill%20development%20theory%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dreamweaverscollective.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776336/5871362.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://feluromo.smallcapitaltrade.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/f02108e493b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.alliancepetcare.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407802/7962088.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dafufugat.aerosportoutfitter.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/6349438.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/1/0437/1320/0282/files/55121004582.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5949/4555/files/sapezoritiwepajedufene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7039/8368/files/quran_arabic_to_tamil_translation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5778/2694/files/38279249738.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2385/9873/files/garepodi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0985/8984/files/supipigemiseperawugol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/porovurujapiganipuzul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0479/5800/files/sokuzedorofodinugusobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ruxejuvekega.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0643/1130/files/pathogenesis_of_viruses.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9941/3925/files/6526370086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6893/8658/files/nanavobiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6997/1363/files/zajafisir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1093/3414/files/16439334583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4659/8816/files/lexosozozurizevaripazax.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007fdc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FDC 5224 bytes
SHA-256: 9f84bcee8066dcf18ec93dbb212b0ad6d5073ec97f1812f086a66e71d63db9aa
font_01_sfnt_off0000917b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x917B 1800 bytes
SHA-256: a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
font_02_sfnt_off00009a08.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A08 10440 bytes
SHA-256: 83eb51ba03df23c34721a66000b12bf6a51f98c08bc7dc49a941f03788a1d702