Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98b4fc9418e057d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:02:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c321fb3f838cd3b47fd95921085a3545 SHA-1: 741a24eafdef291bb9c23480479bf4de8f55ab0b SHA-256: 98b4fc9418e057d4780aae1bf839f9587d899d00d2bf7377af87c62a3a18abe8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body and embedded artifacts are heavily obfuscated, but the primary malicious indicator is the redirector URL, which likely leads to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to game search engine results for broader distribution.

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=bored+button+gold+apkpure In PDF document text
    • http://files.chabadwomensprograms.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131860060/xosiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vunum.meadowandfawn.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303374/4413446.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://karevoriw.vaporstopgreenville.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682905/5497288b32e78.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/1/0435/2878/1988/files/terraria_borderless_window.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9568/7328/files/86085882824.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7701/8524/files/garokilaxavenosomewin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6472/files/82328157933.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0182/9797/files/80005840536.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9283/9317/files/chs_entrance_exam_paper_for_class_11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4855/3887/files/biochemistry_book_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zizamazigunonafimav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1454/3771/files/66467714542.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000075a6.bin decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x75A6 17688 bytes
SHA-256: 201b3375ff1932eea6fc38ff5827e5e0d17c549dd222964f50d5125a676020de
font_00_sfnt_off00004199.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4199 5204 bytes
SHA-256: be2cbc75a474a58026ab944e994bfa736fc2308f304c6eae16765eb93615efa3
font_01_sfnt_off00005357.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5357 9996 bytes
SHA-256: 1e7f7c1d16dbef0574a41a8665963912c71e803fb58da3883773a3db69b2192d

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