Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 93f70361027869bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:03:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 207fe45a1f4cca370309e182f7174a44 SHA-1: 1fd303d8dd415e78d8eae663d8fbad56d04a5ed3 SHA-256: 93f70361027869bf31d5e752ae73829865c43e60f68ce9e06e3213976e49eea4
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass external PDF link farm, and 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms a link to malicious infrastructure. The presence of 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' suggests this PDF is part of a multi-stage attack, likely intended to trick the user into downloading a password-protected archive, which is then used to bypass gateway security.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=anubhavinchu+raja+audio+song In PDF document text
    • http://xewit.lavinawagnerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/sanik_kolotugulorusap_roxiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kaitlinkaufman.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871466/05995b2f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://malot.woodenpensdownunder.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775971/2573186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xuwulegal.vegasvowsforfree.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813458/xepemitabudutapaxevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://masisoter.myserenitybodylotion.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775722/gajupeberofu-govudiwulujosem.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/1/0431/6135/4389/files/arboles_de_decision_finanzas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/sotuxinonuwirumedubisaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2131/files/bengali_calendar_1423_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6903/1078/files/lusakopejaxenarikoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0130/6526/files/character_reference_letter_for_child_custody.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8245/6981/files/jakoxujokupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7315/8806/files/letusovujevuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4316/8156/files/old_man_and_the_sea_sparknotes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/95175891802.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/47585992817.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ridikesomuzumiburowafex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2218/8701/files/kowekejobadezotugib.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007982.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7982 5116 bytes
SHA-256: b4d297f3cf5a71cf59feff9973ea365500cdec04fb0e79dfe2480e07f1121556
font_01_sfnt_off00008ac7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AC7 10840 bytes
SHA-256: 953419d39c9902753acc85c0b85c4fd62e06b410f357443f953b2f5b067108a1
font_02_sfnt_off0000afba.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFBA 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34