Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 939d333a6b252b8f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 20:27:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c77c164eb83c79988ce2c9154c1eda48 SHA-1: e0bd3c96e426991d380eb7583a1271f8f402e786 SHA-256: 939d333a6b252b8f6fbf58d98a9043f28136a0fdf4bc4b469756da9c5188c52b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the attack, potentially leading to phishing or malware.

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=qaseeda+burda+shareef+urdu+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dorianspebbleinapond.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816091/6139396.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.attractionmania.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857419/6afc07b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.calclugston.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775431/japuzafojuted-tojofob.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/1/0450/6884/5208/files/buxabinubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8838/0061/files/ribodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/xopadidavixab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/adwords_certification_study_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6886/6212/files/44592688539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7913/1551/files/87556026436.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1332/5471/files/porixemabifid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6738/2687/files/ximolagipise.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1265/1170/files/28986784132.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9585/8088/files/24954119649.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4092/3048/files/artificial_intelligence_a_modern_approach_amazon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4494/4542/files/bahra_lv_cables_catalogue.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5713/5257/files/zoligigirugozezifuwiz.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://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_006_off00009b3e.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9B3E 21440 bytes
SHA-256: 6482701c455b5466a5bc096c006efb7c384b6dbf13d4c6f3ddd8cf5db654d83f
font_00_sfnt_off000067ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67AB 4836 bytes
SHA-256: 5ab5914d6cf96e02fa986a50b64a29d343b6e42de78fb9968964a28d6ac82081
font_01_sfnt_off00007815.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7815 10440 bytes
SHA-256: f05f7f4bf67f004a8a84639bdace51bb4c07d375fba49f8ef90f34f8227ad600
font_03_sfnt_off0000c04a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC04A 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e