Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9df1300ba1d79f17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3ded487d874c45b52ba8c6ca7d1d16b9 SHA-1: 88e5c69a1dda71b4d6be18e34a383491a4cd2fd8 SHA-256: 9df1300ba1d79f175c0e9a2d8d6fe774492c6059ebfd82ca43094dc87e167ee0
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, disguised as a movie trailer. This is further supported by heuristics indicating a malicious redirector and a link farm. The document body contains obfuscated text and multiple embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation, but one critical URL leads to a redirector.

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=black+panther+movie+trailer+video In PDF document text
    • http://xurevasi.elizabethballare.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/5e4b8f2c646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.chambersjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437660/gifiwu_wenezenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.miss-crumbs-a-lot.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696214/499234.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/1/0432/5254/7739/files/4885592660.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2674/files/10607558491.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5848/7703/files/dupopomuzomajiluvadoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/7099/6889/files/cooktop_brastemp_4_bocas_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5257/1555/files/jadajowawikuvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0165/4935/files/baloncesto_definicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1332/5471/files/zaxuvafoginabebemupivogog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2089/files/hybridization_examples.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5655/4394/files/dipatidulunijewadana.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3494/3388/files/gebutaril.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8216/files/fun_activities_for_esl_students.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_off0000646b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x646B 5308 bytes
SHA-256: 51c1acf42dda5287a9413c92b1faa1d9ec829a45a61756622d42e1fcb9ca21b8
font_01_sfnt_off0000764d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x764D 10732 bytes
SHA-256: 54fb6f32fa9b357a4b8b19290b77c195846ce1331e5459456094ecfbf2caa003