Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ef8d46662246f32…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-11-02 06:16:03 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-06-04
MD5: 1ba3bf265832db8a6079dea215af9f98 SHA-1: 13b38b726f7c4e61f7530bc68538eeebe2966aa8 SHA-256: 8ef8d46662246f32deb0bd2696b0f7c7e5bbc431bf0cbf28771c191ce6c22627
244 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF document contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or known redirector infrastructure. One critical heuristic identified a brand-impersonation credential phishing lure for UPS, directing users to a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document's primary purpose appears to be credential harvesting through a link farm.

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.
  • Brand-impersonation credential phishing lure critical SE_BRAND_CREDENTIAL_PHISH
    Document impersonates a well-known consumer brand and uses account-security / verification language ('unusual activity', 'account on hold', 'verify your account') to steer the reader to a credential-harvesting link. Corroborated by: action link to abused redirector https://kidunaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437100/715115.pdf.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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/123?keyword=power+rule+of+exponents+definition In PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4388422/normal_5f90c92c4679f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/nigimul/clinical_interview_techniques.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://kidunaxu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437100/715115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pojosividadom.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/5/134524524/d76011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://suganolorifumu.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814011/bc71e621f30cf1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377678/normal_5f9e473464cd5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jegupifak.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/0/134018348/efd695a6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369165/normal_5f87db19c478f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4415308/normal_5f947a23ea972.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/bd4fa0f3-2e64-461d-8624-02e2cfd4e861/67611911756.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/7c895272-fa22-4d85-b547-f38b75de2b15/mamupumumana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/e87107e0-963d-44c2-ac31-b16cb0363847/lurolododewolidug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0494/0926/1735/files/2223204802.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
🗂 Part of campaign: f-static.net 7 samples

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060bd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60BD 4988 bytes
SHA-256: af3e6906c2e0aec56e07e7f1b245dd6fef029f9e9b2408fdfd508054c19cf4a3
font_01_sfnt_off000071d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71D6 1796 bytes
SHA-256: f2fd644e4456c386070f09a2777277c31662a4a00a06e6a83a863dc8a0122cd5
font_02_sfnt_off00007aa7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AA7 11012 bytes
SHA-256: d5ef9b0d457a9b7ccdd66591d0476665321684973d843325f735266976f15331