Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 827addd6b8e36317…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 07:39:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e609c84dcf93cabceef95853ff118b8d SHA-1: 4b4585c9f4416bcdf61bcb25095ac6978ed086e0 SHA-256: 827addd6b8e36317384c13b620567d30be6ee5e524b0f052ec18074f8bb2fde7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm designed to deceive users. The primary lure, 'Backend template free', is presented alongside a URL that redirects to malicious infrastructure, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.com/pify?keyword=backend+template+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.simplypilatesandstretch.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/fa445487f967.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zuxuz.impactcommunications.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/xasituboregupak-puxiwa-fogudejiretad-begatuxomiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5138/files/32528535886.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/7182/6072/files/lelow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1710/8642/files/mixozixukotubazaves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7829/5450/files/91658608062.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8289/8840/files/2989445266.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1900/9173/files/bach_fugue_in_c_major_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8679/1334/files/uss_nimitz_arma_3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3684/3933/files/49065215596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/7873/4239/files/dowogalafidud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7106/8577/files/11639687049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8454/files/fujamoni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2014/7095/files/aufenthaltstitel_beantragen.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008d48.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D48 4864 bytes
SHA-256: 29c2cead8ba3fb78aa01733679b78024f19415bb28851fb0629f1b35da86373b
font_01_sfnt_off00009dab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DAB 4272 bytes
SHA-256: ef360a5dbd1f3d5d073c416e40c4457ca3b1e54e5134705a3ed7ef28fc5be3aa
font_02_sfnt_off0000ae8c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE8C 10156 bytes
SHA-256: 4a0e3f5aef385171a50e8fa0469af11949ff18e8eb0975b64b52af142be7dfb6
font_03_sfnt_off0000d188.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD188 16652 bytes
SHA-256: c470a912f17a33d24ae80674671626163d7d2787c6fa71bc4267a1d5f8d55d1e
font_04_sfnt_off0000e796.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE796 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c