Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8456c546d07db9c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.4 KB Created: 2020-08-19 06:47:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 76c8ad76e1602b9728b2f0cb35e84849 SHA-1: ba230d2ad64cfcb7df0f68de627541786df6435d SHA-256: 8456c546d07db9c460bf46d0b03a57d9ee06fffecb88c269cc09e2a0c6f870f9
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites. The embedded URL points to a redirector that is part of a known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector.

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=adpro+fasttrace+software In PDF document text
    • http://files.prairieartscenter.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/f6df14.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/1/0434/8598/6982/files/attention_schema_theory.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1647/9132/files/fetuluxulozeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7038/2485/files/6995223747.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5117/1478/files/pijimijajivame.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2646/3385/files/alone_boy_hd_wallpaper_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0948/2658/files/wipekazakitobalu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0097/8853/files/nupim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9018/2304/files/nodowunavagajafozugogisod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3050/2806/files/35649188273.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2277/files/dapujezubovoso.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0965/4436/files/tejoxewatijenugesivitadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6455/5675/files/92621306096.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0687/0183/files/88659938570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4802/4741/files/51135200294.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b689.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB689 5200 bytes
SHA-256: 31fbeb6bbdde3c8d33fd8d268b587086523a3a7ad798abb05da3a488b2bca87d
font_01_sfnt_off0000c855.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC855 10712 bytes
SHA-256: 385496e74ded4432bae7135bc9eb1b3b339c8e978f3b67a5985d4502f7402fc8

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