Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93bbf8fd8c96cae4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:43:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: eecde493cb87bdfafcefb1fbe0836fc0 SHA-1: 65636294e468318384ed5bbfa908c2494caf6d10 SHA-256: 93bbf8fd8c96cae44641b0a789d876ddb2a56b070bf6b5215361edeaa87eed27
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The presence of a visual download button and the document body text mentioning 'Accession register format in library' suggests a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content.

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.
  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=accession+register+format+in+library In PDF document text
    • http://files.thesoundingboardministry.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/wivotox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.yt8music.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453005/ae92acb9c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laneinspections.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383959/2766878.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/1/0447/8484/4949/files/25125419379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4245/5195/files/wonderlic_personnel_test.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4133/3147/files/devufarugasinokolokekeban.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9191/1066/files/antagonistas_receptores_h2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0933/files/68272286652.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/aha_acls_algorithms.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1008/8342/files/resmed_airsense_10_autoset_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0596/8537/files/21045800068.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9097/5647/files/wapilemozezewamuputulexop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gabagijujusudizal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8191/5798/files/13612212400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4845/0718/files/female_body_language_book.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6881/7562/files/80802617450.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_off00006eff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EFF 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 2b67885b3ca6dc59e0e54e5ae028e938470de0e58ffec2159c2e23bed82b4562
font_01_sfnt_off0000815e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x815E 10076 bytes
SHA-256: 0f3dc2a5210a3299434150bc9fbbe3f7502e7d895ebefc5caca6e492a324d27b