Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8391008f3f028115…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-02 15:43:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ccae9d5b9b3228389a9680808a4eb898 SHA-1: b2682ea802e8c7e1b7952fa79189fd16fb210719 SHA-256: 8391008f3f02811586f68ab3c910a4af5cb2c490995c1565e307d4ad171da6bc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple embedded links and a document body that appears to be a lure for credit card payment, directing users to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure suggests it's part of a link farm designed to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials.

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=pay+my+shell+credit+card In PDF document text
    • http://files.abatchieart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/0c7a8f63ec4a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.matildameadescubittdesign.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874489/1bb5bf11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.reelppl.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/3747951.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.therogerstricklandfarm.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683330/8836850.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/1/0430/9961/9492/files/38176708233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7266/0390/files/vebawoxufujakotexasid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2603/9452/files/70651327037.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2629/0587/files/bolotudurizowuladuguporaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/50537202024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1787/1255/files/35738186427.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6887/files/35127572036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5282/6777/files/nebilurazavebov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5381/6728/files/gevowulizojukofatadexami.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0342/8510/files/8073884596.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2737/1931/files/93394160870.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_off00006e72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E72 5280 bytes
SHA-256: 0886ab9caaa2b3bf79d3af1c1be7884555c35290b5a0bc9f60f9bb0052f537ea
font_01_sfnt_off00008040.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8040 10704 bytes
SHA-256: 26569f933ab6194522af463d28e548c241f089dd9bf380ffe09e3b3fc041f62b