Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a19e935d8a50a50…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.3 KB Created: 2020-08-22 12:51:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 96000e678e86d0f673bbccd2331803ab SHA-1: 86b2b07d339c3ce667d6420dd97cd02c992cfb78 SHA-256: 8a19e935d8a50a505300b7ac1eec68f67930058d4cc4308fdc9058c45eea1c51
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for a datasheet, which, when clicked, redirects to the malicious URL. The presence of many external links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious payload.

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/pify?keyword=panasonic+aw-+rp50+datasheet In PDF document text
    • http://simig.madrassi.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483254/2924822.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kewet.cornellactuarialsociety.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969627/rojikavugikilej-xavukoponupi-litix-vipewoduzafomom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://napufav.stopabully.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437308/refidake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jiwaka.nehoularescue.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856602/tujibomojud-luluporat.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/1/0440/3986/4485/files/minosobobivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2110/files/legujunegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7049/6672/files/20356495238.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4830/4797/files/zuxubuvovaxemudivix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4329/9234/files/bamojilutuvokokifoxofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8995/files/raxuradanag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5258/7415/files/37051223059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75904593322.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2545/7575/files/49680494812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8861/8396/files/mariners_seating_chart.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8161/9861/files/zesufafarufipatu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1324/2005/files/supply_chain_management_ebook_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4687/1974/files/tatedivogoxaropi.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_off00005033.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5033 5520 bytes
SHA-256: 2dfbcae5db69475f28877ad0cbc76202d8f7a6bce861d83fa81f18e5d932d9c3
font_01_sfnt_off000062ff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62FF 11384 bytes
SHA-256: 60a8c62bbedcf37ae75cc0bace4bde15a6fd9cb0499d862639351e411e170b32