Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9da97562f49d8e4f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

107.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 09:37:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 50dbb9fea516503332e02af52051eac7 SHA-1: e2a24fd6ccc3ef678e941405b8b54de2d5ab08ab SHA-256: 9da97562f49d8e4f1cfa06ff0cf43ce83a5f1027142258046aed3660b2ea874f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to 'philosophy logic pdf'. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

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/pify?keyword=branches+of+philosophy+logic+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.shearserenitysalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/53b9878d6b0f11.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ejpalmieri.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/jodakenotog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.piersonbible.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406751/3649992.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.luxurylodge.fi/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636828/4439286.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.eyelightdesign.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/bekafajenujimama.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/1/0429/7241/4106/files/11662583186.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6832/5029/files/44424758774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1871/4264/files/34595917296.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/magej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4085/0598/files/7337530046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8180/9566/files/91607103012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fixasitisajixumazurezeve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8158/7095/files/tujozorajamu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2516/2652/files/afro_cuban_rhythms_for_drumset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7418/2563/files/sdgs_summary.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lewajoranuputefikilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/48442949874.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6570/3590/files/oregon_dmv_accident_report_form.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5992/9503/files/rufaboxezu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/doxufuvezemog.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001423a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1423A 5276 bytes
SHA-256: 440455509a7a5430fdb90daad492a641e14c3fd359a42b7ccf601bccb33305cc
font_01_sfnt_off0001541c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1541C 11972 bytes
SHA-256: 8db8fe7ef24c6ababe0057068580724d9cda7944f83193c37df54948b0dbb116
font_02_sfnt_off00017bd3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17BD3 16196 bytes
SHA-256: f8c08fa7eb806811f9ec4d76f9fb35514e9e92fc67938f13f30b7a842964811c
font_03_sfnt_off00019115.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19115 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176