Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e38ad799e0104e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:09:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 44f93ca78b2b5b4b7af5ba30373e8af9 SHA-1: af1123bd1561566a50add4a5984bbaa5f9835c27 SHA-256: 9e38ad799e0104e92a1db912c57c1e4b3454070c9aeabc20a8847820f812ea04
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'Jcb backhoe loader parts manual pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for phishing or malware delivery. The presence of a link farm heuristic further indicates an attempt to obscure the malicious destination.

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=jcb+backhoe+loader+parts+manual+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lapebaxa.allthesedays.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453645/jarive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rycroftlabradors.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680813/zisojiva_gorawuzi_rodewatadiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glsgroupllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/riwesirilizif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pafoj.sustainablespaces.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740178/bikeke_milupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.fleurdelizcandles.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871705/7952129.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/1/0434/3968/5799/files/lajazidemedonezisoxixip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2349/0457/files/80218493235.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1783/7480/files/84912344192.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6060/9703/files/56700158081.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0752/5542/files/sutitalubuwivekazalibujen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8800/2726/files/33625172189.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74195332560.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8151/5673/files/kubota_engine_parts_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4976/3494/files/29224131202.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97697777452.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6636/8935/files/tebunituwurewikoruwufa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3864/4123/files/xatuni.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3365/7495/files/vozosiru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4439/7468/files/bebimuxuri.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_off00004f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F5B 5424 bytes
SHA-256: fb7d9fe862c5272d2d953f8504c72128316b71c741cd82dcd8243946bd632b9c
font_01_sfnt_off00006196.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6196 10716 bytes
SHA-256: cc6dfef4fe1306b7191a3789bfaf39a3056e2dca60665eb3615f659d7e510ddc
font_02_sfnt_off0000847e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x847E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361