Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8817c3086e68ba14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 22:28:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: abab6ecce3fbd11dd0c63c93d7723391 SHA-1: e8937719c35c6a0964fd686edb47cc0c43d67056 SHA-256: 8817c3086e68ba14d5b62cf7c65a68981fd2a80c99e1b76eb0610b070e984153
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, many pointing to a redirector infrastructure associated with malicious activity. The document body, though obfuscated, contains text related to 'consumer reports best mattresses 2016' and a URL that aligns with a phishing or scam lure. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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/pify?keyword=consumer+reports+best+mattresses+2016 In PDF document text
    • http://files.danielles-boutique.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710603/sozasigosejikej_nogelotado.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.morrisadvohealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482864/ca9a98869780f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.caregiverscontact.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438207/57c9197448.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/1/0433/0687/7080/files/naduz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/52325197595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2949/4940/files/58631958712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0550/1852/files/rusorilexikosudiduf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2296/5160/files/92017992700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1474/1413/files/febinobezibakipe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1320/8221/files/futata.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0312/files/74173274060.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1921/4756/files/supumux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4465/0651/files/sunitubagekamed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0002/1667/files/janapudadumudozenekada.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2499/6773/files/zozedo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9612/1251/files/poxuxoxefenokexuki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9495/0559/files/dibonirudebinopomexunaf.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_off000065ed.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65ED 5456 bytes
SHA-256: 9339c9b69fc3cce68ffadd5f0ec3a96d58e42f45a2a8d13a1c1b4d1397beb955
font_01_sfnt_off00007858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7858 10180 bytes
SHA-256: ca7d6450b7c086ce9f3ddb9883e8ef0d22b8ef134b97264d0ac75c93d096204c