Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8613a8b0b7c0ab82…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:56:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 21d274181ca875ce8ef0dfa9ecaa1e01 SHA-1: 01d32aa4f25212a63833df03510fb0b842269abe SHA-256: 8613a8b0b7c0ab8260626ab4458cd736b39b6a25461733c32d2fa5bd519871c4
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to a known redirector and a large link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that points to a redirector. The presence of a 'clipboard command execution lure' suggests the document may instruct users to interact with their clipboard in a way that facilitates malicious actions, likely leading to the download or execution of further payloads.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=fix+kernel32.dll+kostenlos In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82510f476aff418780b6dab1ffc9593e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2cc151931659490da406f5a076073cb9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bb351efe6639463983164d0d75870432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_04b73b6e11e34c46af81efa3fb4fdca5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3834b_a898042f1174441da4b3316ebefbf5d1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_428b077b14644b6ab0bd1aaf80daee26.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/45e30f_a3229daa2a404aceaece8a5ea8844755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f68ba551c4664203a2ecacec1817c8da.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/162fe6_22cf5585430746a281ea39ec5ea66bad.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/72216b_ee8bd0d61e254d64adb85ba0342a0fea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6df952_1340e63cb00c43bdb8906dce21f0306d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de60da_327be4a45df245dd8fecffd3a16c41d9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a467d2_cad0675e45034b61b57406764aa3b4e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9201/7305/files/free_background_funny_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7115/2023/files/26203986431.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_off00005e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E44 5024 bytes
SHA-256: 4006993ecd29806e5a5200b5e9440c2ab8dd7c52675861d00f8470248af4d408
font_01_sfnt_off00006f6b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F6B 10280 bytes
SHA-256: c816d5003ac1c1eb114ad200f6e6102d57b05732164376d22f45bafb8ff6095d