Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dc2ae3820d9fc59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 21:09:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 592718b757a3a033f8d5ea2eef378813 SHA-1: 626d1c58efb86b6502a0f27bbabf5e91b227aa2b SHA-256: 9dc2ae3820d9fc59e8e81e98e54970e3f3ff54925e84c601a3b01b0a9947ab22
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt where the user is enticed to click on a link presented as project-related content. The redirector likely leads to a malicious payload or further phishing page.

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.com/pify?keyword=arduino+uno+lcd+display+project+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.documentsresearch.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695530/morapejawes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://nalukijo.midoripermatech.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815017/xebedelifixatajivi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.powerful-lashes.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383651/1795199.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kearnshighcounseling.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813888/4898966.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/1/0436/1519/1202/files/kosevimanurepawagojurim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5193/2056/files/daxotot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/parisibudipaxetiwori.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8730/5629/files/50955201176.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3657/1805/files/skyrim_special_edition_best_mods.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0497/7564/files/losidasafolobito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2641/4748/files/turoruwetoda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0996/4192/files/80158809134.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4116/9309/files/character_certificate_form_for_students.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0333/1231/files/pebosunitevumigapeguji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/94662163826.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9770/1032/files/jemibeborinugujejuma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9113/2567/files/xewoxero.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1932/7896/files/global_advertising_strategies.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_off0000729c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x729C 4100 bytes
SHA-256: ab3b2718d0a2b6ac758731c6a1e56c7213f485990f776f6825ab9507c39c5d65
font_01_sfnt_off00008120.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8120 5316 bytes
SHA-256: 11093c43a28846062a29208e047b65f0f052f87c390423d21c25ebae6d642574
font_02_sfnt_off00009356.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9356 10128 bytes
SHA-256: d6e53b21b6cd30e02927b3de0456f72b464c30a3799e8bf2806431ab945699af