Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d6251faa2184576…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-03 15:36:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: cd60e046f0578f121ae94a38b05c5ec0 SHA-1: bf7f6aa4406c3fe80616f8cde30f73485e9662f4 SHA-256: 8d6251faa2184576d9ba681fe035ea93afe6f3e0d08814387c150dd7f7ed2037
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Barclays premier travel plus pack pdf' and a URL that aligns with the malicious redirector heuristic. The presence of a link farm and a callback lure suggests a phishing or scam attempt designed to lead the user to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=barclays+premier+travel+plus+pack+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://kuvoris.ericaparrinelloblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438405/rokamotufit_wopobog_jumuriwoji_nuratixefafof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goodnews4thecounty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740591/89c27354dbc523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aodex.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408798/fazefag.pdfIn 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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8923/1000/files/winazin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1446/3394/files/45945385948.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/64486562279.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3056/9382/files/tujibakajagupitiwemegojof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8446/3784/files/89929772162.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1658/5379/files/52798981234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2520/2325/files/nakuferof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0645/1094/files/68429699659.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5442/3445/files/demuxebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5339/1765/files/sigokufisaximajafuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5727/5299/files/32943100392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1520/files/levokavobudolituvadakis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4480/5525/files/valinafeniv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8788/8551/files/31774950703.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000062fd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62FD 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 4df8677359a2dea83bec3876d343a0caad5bec74588cb10e22d9658a8a7fbd3b
font_01_sfnt_off000074ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74EA 9892 bytes
SHA-256: 94926175423d9d8b9fd8007b92ebb4346b620c310833c33c8564f87a9e520953
font_02_sfnt_off000096af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96AF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176