Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8eeeb23a7d3b91a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:55:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57d6c29968a2f6a648c26437d63bf217 SHA-1: d4268788dc5b82756b75627d321080ebbc34eb0d SHA-256: 8eeeb23a7d3b91a6a5610a0b0dd087e0c2e7b18d8f0672fd3798117e6f29dea4
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Development economics roland pdf' and references the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure to a specific topic. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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=development+economics+roland+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.mashawmcguinnis.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681517/1449146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kingdomperspectives.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379049/304308.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thefitmenswear.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969474/5063826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lisaxing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874102/pujofoziz-kokamimopuba.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/1/0429/1559/4393/files/57323016106.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6065/8333/files/99629204540.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0654/7352/files/xepoduje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5382/5694/files/21577220690.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9365/1610/files/amalgamador_millenium_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3770/4867/files/buwogilaruf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3287/0044/files/pink_panther_ringtone_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1218/5499/files/26358240915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4722/3458/files/zifabixexebeputapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8765/8141/files/atos_dos_apstolos_estudo_bblico_pdf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5122/1143/files/aisi_4130_steel_properties.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004b4d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B4D 5148 bytes
SHA-256: 1aa59a811d86aa7ceb7b0233db49c9c2d0bf26c864d55abf32e9fdc6db0e1028
font_01_sfnt_off00005cb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CB9 9908 bytes
SHA-256: 1d941a46a2a8ebf992aa3530d7118668bb49963233c82e8ddbe67c53cc1dc3b9
font_02_sfnt_off00007ea6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EA6 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3

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