Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a4e3b0d8410470f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-26 11:10:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: 9f7b19749333966c88443377457c3deb SHA-1: 3e83ce3068769a2f5329ba54564ac7ce00331309 SHA-256: 8a4e3b0d8410470f7953b86535834c92572fc540c8041e2f1faff9a4bba0567e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, likely to trick the user into downloading malware. The document body and heuristics indicate a lure for 'Corel draw portable x3 64 bit'. The presence of a password-protected archive lure suggests the actual payload is hidden and encrypted. The PDF also hosts a link farm, pointing to numerous other PDFs, likely for SEO poisoning to increase visibility.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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/pify?keyword=corel+draw+portable+x3+64+bit In PDF document text
    • http://files.alamowebwrite.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815009/4101570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.2k9petservices.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873732/rebavuvova_jonerako_piraxoxuwipeto_jomez.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/1/0431/2665/3090/files/fasebat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1617/5263/files/material_ui_react_native_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3924/3943/files/jsf_number_format_converter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2728/9496/files/votogekapaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2331/8683/files/policy_cancellation_letter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1541/3661/files/relut.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0006/9287/files/65426465200.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1470/9663/files/nusawilup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1083/4077/files/ca_course_details.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_off000096c6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96C6 5388 bytes
SHA-256: 39d11afa63e446e2be9ccedbf87320402e20f0f4be969739b3f989118dbc8c99
font_01_sfnt_off0000a93b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA93B 10600 bytes
SHA-256: add7b91a35ab22810e0b501ea952125196e1c33408aeeb46df3f1b6e51f0ff09

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