Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99333cdae4a10520…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:15:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ce02a477765e85e55eb7a17553a34922 SHA-1: 9e112839491cf2e3d866c5b42e2fd60da9e92edf SHA-256: 99333cdae4a10520db6eb6bff7360f93eb0401fafb794eb4215b1e54b712965e
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links and a document body that mimics a download prompt for 'Acrobat reader x free'. Heuristics indicate these links point to redirector infrastructure and a link farm, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution scheme. The presence of multiple PDF links and a redirector URL strongly suggests an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site for further exploitation.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=acrobat+reader+x+free In PDF document text
    • http://files.17southband.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454034/f3822dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pwshotokan.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302859/pudom-taxulog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.richardellishair.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452841/wobipogofiz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.suenospublicationsllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453684/2436685f.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://guxesaju.unlockministry.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/lejezoxudekad-bovedumi-mesofakutuju-fopabad.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/1/0429/6641/7571/files/90038899456.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0936/7454/files/sobigapi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9708/0215/files/kozolunaragotalidavamone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2281/0263/files/bow_making_template_free.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/18083382607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2539/2035/files/busased.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xuxovozukirofavekejob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5020/4316/files/48041202432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8395/4328/files/vozurigagak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2556/2785/files/allan_poe_the_raven.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4949/2384/files/dalogikotox.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_off00005bc1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BC1 5000 bytes
SHA-256: 1823522389c905ff70b12c727ec1dc568d84b824aa623876fffc1ece757038d5
font_01_sfnt_off00006cd0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CD0 9968 bytes
SHA-256: 43827a1fe8eba92549b1b1711139b81f96cfc817b065aa82729666861cf00c88