Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85ea15865a886f24…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.3 KB Created: 2020-08-13 11:07:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 457054ffe86e3e4533742bb625e2f6c6 SHA-1: 46bd02fb613527bb35309aea4775f1f143954b94 SHA-256: 85ea15865a886f24dc7b9224651e74b9138ee1252f9bfa79e51598e0b96a9a4e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to a redirector URL associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, includes the redirector URL and several Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=derecho%20constitucional%20mexicano%20burgoa%20orihuela%20ignacio%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.lyonskinder.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606396/lakevave-siruxaxora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jerrywilliamsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682851/runiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gaelicfootballsa.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379231/femupa_tofale_domikavolaget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gammazetadecaturtn.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303219/4033c57.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nomadicwellness.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740172/daliputarinexet-perulus-pejisa.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/1/0437/3708/8154/files/giant_robot_buckethead.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7301/0845/files/rakokisixogavoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8213/0332/files/17426671030.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9172/9309/files/ancient_history_class_6_old_ncert.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2742/3654/files/97418959459.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6211/6008/files/arranged_rk_lilley.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8909/3018/files/29226383123.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5702/8001/files/lunefutaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4995/0116/files/vakivunadubiraguno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/82456774797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9832/5663/files/60671537795.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27360052690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6601/5400/files/various_forms_of_energy.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_off00004f30.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F30 5776 bytes
SHA-256: e4835a0a6818bcdf6cb534861c7b4e4c0a5edd28845dcc0084a7e5197bc7817d
font_01_sfnt_off000062ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62AB 9680 bytes
SHA-256: 11d1d1641c6cfd841808de433fa3d292a5cc574bb69897d6ce902ab7f102c8c7

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