Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cf9b7d486e8b194…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-27 15:05:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 963a60d9a935614b207d65fd20483328 SHA-1: ee3aaa790671c873afba7d946b45c011c8c05694 SHA-256: 9cf9b7d486e8b194538793883fe9be0414e718b9a695bb075a15e0b5a63d5f84
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, which is designed to lure users to malicious content. The document body text and embedded URLs suggest a phishing attempt related to software activation. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm used to distribute 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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=cl%25C3%25A9+d+activation+windows+7+prof In PDF document text
    • http://files.marzbanhealthandrehab.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681342/xanaloga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wagarivo.holmesrenovationsandrepairsllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438500/384386.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mx.autumntheodorephotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969480/wobozixuguzasag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.butterflyworldcoombs.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969971/pibovuxikaviro_nufoxanuj_pamufaxuligev_koxizumodidoli.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/1/0433/7093/8533/files/xofivolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6157/files/wedajulirorofij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2089/files/85907615316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/wirafazowavetatonupid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2584/1819/files/19324635623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1824/8601/files/79369760245.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/19463184481.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3482/1287/files/67535697455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3654/9018/files/wuwufobobexisofinegolu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1791/0941/files/my_talking_angela_apk_cheats.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5324/3816/files/abc_grandstand_podcast.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/marifurozijuzaledenikegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6980/8548/files/air_force_almanac_2020.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_off00006771.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6771 5216 bytes
SHA-256: f9ab91b6e6384f22e49b9840aedb4220e0a511b0195b66778ad8b61ec5dbb189
font_01_sfnt_off0000795c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x795C 15532 bytes
SHA-256: a18d5ded02e3d09cef6b98d234afe1af6e699395b35bb11b5e28889f268a37fe
font_02_sfnt_off0000a900.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA900 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333