Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d92c4188fdf6b62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 07:48:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a5eedbf0c481b6a4884f08c0d665eca9 SHA-1: 0cb83d1260f1c3e6c5718f744a5f075f4d3ba77e SHA-256: 9d92c4188fdf6b62f89c238038098b408f3d5d9783c6f38d9c34174223ae156e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the malicious redirector URL. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=combining+data+from+multiple+sheets+excel+2013 In PDF document text
    • http://rururej.ggbarry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739616/ronofozari.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.neilmccarthypoetry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453990/6f8bbc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.wellswoodcivic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776268/9676318.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.industrialsoils.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814342/414592.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/1/0433/0032/3478/files/box_plot_python.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6467/8807/files/definisi_atonia_uteri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/bourbon_trail_map.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0780/9448/files/21664835053.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3229/6089/files/euphemism_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2852/7779/files/jalusoxusekageta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/705904397.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5670/8254/files/nest_learning_thermostat_installation_guide_uk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6820/9817/files/zixafan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0894/2499/files/xekela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1573/2376/files/64043740928.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9567/8357/files/gezize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1056/4002/files/40609462319.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006e21.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E21 6172 bytes
SHA-256: e1ac7699a85844f035fa078abc3c51a557ca0c96c47aed2cfc959db65deef1a1
font_01_sfnt_off000082fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82FC 10208 bytes
SHA-256: e99876515afb9b724897601d031b6f7daeea429ae187cec1142ea12a7ee7d196

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