Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93b59597b196273d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 20:42:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a6871235aa47dc92b2ea662344d0466d SHA-1: 2b5c713b30c83738be19688ac5dc9ccaba160266 SHA-256: 93b59597b196273dbcbea7ff03b7ad51f69ff5f10ca36d66aa2914ca4c44c642
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to academic books and URLs, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=abstract+algebra+thomas+w+hungerford+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.seattlestereo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873820/3615345.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wendyestorgamusic.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741225/xitujejasudub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://logara.catharsisfightingthedrugepidemic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407668/4663528.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.9488.kofcva.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636965/wegow-xetitotewidawok.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.synergyresearchlabs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696194/41d9db44e6b0.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/1/0431/5797/9304/files/68810768056.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3006/9927/files/dobarimume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5254/7739/files/vodotitanipi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/86477918810.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/40948382406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31968244380.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2588/9442/files/50661446765.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5930/4858/files/garmin_gpsmap_60csx_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1959/2099/files/97387359365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8373/files/10109725017.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/23667959972.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000046f2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46F2 5788 bytes
SHA-256: e53e763ba37f1436e859642d8d8ca369a8421272eee6f5c780922337ce57db40
font_01_sfnt_off00005a7b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A7B 9780 bytes
SHA-256: 899cd2411611cf58095d012795b7db5e80d2ba489cd414be993ff0ff28edfb8f