Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 941cade274f872df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 11:38:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: be0310ca1583c302c61661ab96325f58 SHA-1: bc131c8811acd95319fb2f209fe4cb5d5c1c9512 SHA-256: 941cade274f872df7a4d26cfd47bae4c61a12ed1695560a2c80b91fd6012480c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to potentially malicious redirectors, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The primary lure appears to be a calendar, as suggested by the document body and URL keywords. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body itself contains the malicious URL, suggesting it's intended to redirect the user to a harmful site.

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.com/wb?keyword=calendario%202018%20para%20imprimir%20pdf%20bonitos In PDF document text
    • http://gujokif.maison-lamartine.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607062/3fb4ca2dc45e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lect2.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407361/mexizujidot-wajen-rawononep-nitep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kmichellemcgregor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/7605935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gutasak.bigwatervista.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/29e0df13af01b3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://waporezev.rockingokc.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302942/bozimomowokiwigemaro.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/1/0432/4176/7072/files/pebekofesesuganudigimadi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4112/6565/files/89830407594.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1498/7669/files/88184150149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8378/4601/files/36726740555.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0312/files/skillpipe_to.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7230/7875/files/3307206870.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5996/0218/files/11355423911.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4382/3511/files/77857173280.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1218/5494/files/articulos_cientificos_medicina.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8036/7780/files/mepufu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/english_learning_30_days.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3020/0991/files/vididobevifurisegoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/juxumadebamapetutorobegew.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0487/9267/files/95887643247.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4719/7594/files/55195531244.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_off00006af7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AF7 5752 bytes
SHA-256: d16204e1750b17ff41bd4c0b4ed6d42ff250c4e3a2ffd22b5629291c2120c7aa
font_01_sfnt_off00007e6e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E6E 11456 bytes
SHA-256: 824c119adc25677115af9caebab89ae86ae87a85ef153b396c10e6e9d2cfe91f