Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 738c909ea4202ee5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 11:59:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d831d720f345bea5fdf20d0a56e38c18 SHA-1: 839cfc1dd11c88a837a43b3cbbab520317a8d2b0 SHA-256: 738c909ea4202ee5b0b141e67cdf4d340b9ee5ab3b26f45c88da0151c3a77c90
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links, including a critical finding for a link to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL pointing to a redirector service. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect users to a malicious site, likely for phishing or further malware delivery.

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/pify?keyword=dawkins+ancestor+s+tale+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.137point5bodycare.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/b1df9b79.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.tspedfwmidcities.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070481/mopurawatozovuk-jumog-gezituwaveradeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.joel-nichols.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379844/8746961.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/1/0437/4419/8805/files/gomiwi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3277/1734/files/lozazalilekobudosuwumisoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6100/9829/files/nimuxigapujigupadam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4254/4533/files/71419610380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9639/1323/files/10291961580.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2735/6056/files/13141330663.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0569/6407/files/nginx_block_mj12bot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3205/1873/files/42599368967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1756/0473/files/18262412507.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0455/1590/files/dajefaxomivavurogotaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7598/3765/files/18177203827.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_off0000dd93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD93 11244 bytes
SHA-256: 7fd4f5a776348643c0bca4d806b2609ea6ba80490676dff419a55c285b03c4b1
font_01_sfnt_off0001027e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1027E 5304 bytes
SHA-256: 5a0df67cc52ddf4b199f3e71f6c55e305c7844148cee22454ee0287b0cd0c382
font_02_sfnt_off000114b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x114B9 10544 bytes
SHA-256: a92ff38714da6cb050d555a90c3df4d587a4d46e7f63d7d2c3adff5702529d95
font_03_sfnt_off000138cb.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138CB 16856 bytes
SHA-256: 216a38ba2db39b8cf33ce1256df46151d13d25b9d74f74e9d6c11cab778a1406