Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ea7360f21357f5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-28 04:38:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6e0edc94697107e5f50c77ea65546311 SHA-1: 273daf9d81be898ea36c02686e709034ed59541c SHA-256: 8ea7360f21357f5bafafa5f7124fc58d98225fc55d23385878908978960db48e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other potentially benign URLs hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious 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.cc/pify?keyword=the+bhagavad+gita+jack+hawley+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lekak.hilltoppertennis.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164394/luzudimujikuwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bosub.hire-alicia.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681361/16c49.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.orderibc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871786/a70443bf1288b.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/1/0463/0727/9013/files/lipid_profile_test_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5857/7046/files/5693399790.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8184/files/bazaar_south_movie_2019.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2456/1829/files/job_application_format_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2063/8632/files/jisolikimopakug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4608/2472/files/les_ailettes_transfert_thermique.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/8572/5595/files/exponential_and_logarithmic_equations_worksheet_7-_5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2891/4074/files/bokidutomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8638/4023/files/5565513014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1740/4573/files/banking_terms_gradeup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5029/5708/files/no_man_s_sky_boundary_failure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2804/6233/files/4842803413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6134/4406/files/avg_antivirus_free_till_2018.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_off00006203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6203 5628 bytes
SHA-256: b775b604b961b6f1bac2c62f2c161db1c74471e2c5197297afc38f227af6446e
font_01_sfnt_off0000754b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x754B 13248 bytes
SHA-256: f1dd0878f27f7d286ba01efb1eefdb5e836f12aeb7ec6a9513321c6f6fa912b8

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