Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c95f5dc39729d6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 16:58:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: bb9e16282859d9a22135cb624522a87f SHA-1: 24d1e768b76cbee4d29a58af1e9779f198d76dd0 SHA-256: 8c95f5dc39729d6b12f09e9a0b329a559435f52ac38c679210934ce33af270e8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, with the primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and references to other PDFs hosted on Shopify. This indicates a link farm or redirection strategy to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a malicious redirection attack pattern.

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=urinary+catheterization+procedure+male+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.peaceplanetjournal.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740090/momifoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.trainingoutlaws.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398333/bcde270f3c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://getoderod.canoefun.ca/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969057/7974160.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.feedthewobbegong.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740062/xelikagevowud-sazewurixavigi-mojufovo-leduledaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theaterinthewoodsvt.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381555/sedodamubipoj.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/1/0431/0974/4789/files/maya_extrude_along_curve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8522/6403/files/antigone_ruby_blondell.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2135/3635/files/pemewamarepevapubavonipul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7654/9798/files/rijapawinokur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7841/0655/files/muwesugenorenavolenukib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3192/8740/files/71072364213.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5089/9368/files/jajifakovisamuzitig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4615/0039/files/10182034332.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5031/9528/files/fumonubesivojejon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2268/files/befuzaxasowasodetigis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8765/1235/files/wukovaturojasufajuniseved.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5458/8316/files/fikixubuxizagekat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1616/7328/files/rizat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2347/3568/files/53214454324.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_off00006f35.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F35 5360 bytes
SHA-256: bcd7e1ea0cc25db49f03ad26b6e390feeb2879176fc8d15e5ff0990854a13cd9
font_01_sfnt_off0000815a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x815A 11324 bytes
SHA-256: a39ac39599f261a65e83cf6e43379b7251ead38b18077aea9053f6d90f7ae425