Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b57530f73d1f91d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 12:48:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fa023cd119ecf40a994e883d37398ef1 SHA-1: 5876141c7a60e9918c9c6de0a98ace9a831cf8e7 SHA-256: 8b57530f73d1f91d3e7bdff5c8d3dfd1319f93bc3e1a6ec2cf3787887bbf4f1e
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a significant number of embedded links to external PDF files, many hosted on Shopify. One of these links points to a known malicious redirector. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search results or distribute further malicious content, potentially leading to phishing or malware downloads.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=2204355+i%2527+m+feeling+lucky In PDF document text
    • http://files.sillassenhalf.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969555/bevijidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theparlepodcast.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681992/pitujewed_pirenu_gizigajegaxuxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.vucatools.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378816/2e95602e0f761.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gracecommunitychurchchesapeake.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740836/zerivilukezipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.beattieartworks.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874253/9901399.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/1/0429/6785/9359/files/35394083495.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2707/1130/files/44576576672.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6268/0984/files/charger_bass_boats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/79967204751.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6704/0154/files/craftsman_gold_6._75_lawn_mower_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8036/files/the_china_study_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4012/9692/files/47845251403.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fawalonilon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8609/4242/files/dosamama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6365/7119/files/wuradosorafunu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8207/2739/files/xuweluwegugavixanafasus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9008/1960/files/64230723559.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A4D 5472 bytes
SHA-256: 4cf1752e7b67ccdad44b7612d60734025583c63bd21c3427eaa170a940730f72
font_01_sfnt_off00006d09.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D09 10360 bytes
SHA-256: bd61691e34ecf514475d0a9fc262fa348988ec5146b562ab8d032c42fa5a0bea
font_02_sfnt_off000090c5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90C5 16204 bytes
SHA-256: 541fa2b6826b0add99b7d5a173ef1e6a5567607b5192f75b810eb17d6a563501