Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4ddbad73449fdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.5 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:31:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 08cde1ce2c1619579970b1704bcdb2cf SHA-1: 926aee064b283d01eceb28b91b6dc01bef056c41 SHA-256: 8a4ddbad73449fdc346fb5ec1e178b53e24b8968a025101f4adb6fa7c1a18523
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is designed to lead users to harmful content.

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/wix?keyword=inverse+of+matrix+by+adjoint+method+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5926b4_1d1402fbe6874344ad6eb041423fef74.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_31f7348275494334b9e7c3eee38984ce.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4f0c6_51500828a2bd413faa90e7af98c681a1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2476/9436/files/kefavo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/2998/files/joloti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7722/8957/files/vasoguw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0881/1427/files/kirk_franklin_melodies_from_heaven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9811/6006/files/wallpaper_city_guide_berlin_app.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6953/7432/files/93247202920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3546/7669/files/49136990142.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3576/1576/files/java_tictactoe_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7723/7920/files/captive_prince_short_stories.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/805d2a_3455d15186744665945fa83460461540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5412a_2e95d932367a45e0aefe7e60d64050ed.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b25b5_d90ac7b8cdc845f49d7bd3de08f2dfef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/13ae68_c9bdb53515034e108f76bc2ec7ab343c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2e20a_dab29b88028c4402be4bcc55bc6ecbdd.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009f28.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F28 5420 bytes
SHA-256: 6449c9aa6a615cef405023f4d5bde7fd99e60c016f89d513ad777dadd9860be2
font_01_sfnt_off0000b161.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB161 2172 bytes
SHA-256: bf1804cbcf83f836578c5dbfda0438c9899b1b6a4352db3ffc2e86e67f94985b
font_02_sfnt_off0000bac3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBAC3 16812 bytes
SHA-256: 0d3690d9ac851f1c8d6aad4e86dbdac94aeee335834019656115b88a31a6f947
font_03_sfnt_off0000ef33.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEF33 16504 bytes
SHA-256: 6084706b698b262ab3d633ce783c6a450ba7cd1a6a97b8f0132746cf2f0912b5
font_04_sfnt_off00010594.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10594 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34