Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e43869f1bd04087…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.7 KB Created: 2020-08-04 00:13:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8d4623fb0fed9baa9c5c1100ed90be4d SHA-1: dd04812a6300987b7428396d013fcee5fbfc2691 SHA-256: 9e43869f1bd040877b6bb3f53c61ed51f11e7f1289da6b66f72d6be6d9b20dcd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to a 'classic fine food catalogue' and includes the malicious URL. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic also indicates a large number of external links, likely for SEO manipulation or 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.ru/pify?keyword=classic+fine+food+catalogue+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.maevemccarthy.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/9117232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.roykillen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437949/woxivufamub-fefazobogofaxu-ragux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.duhbuhlyoo.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871850/xeweludigokivor_risovimapake_rekuzigiluku_zigetovomi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.krhphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454040/vupixukimanoxo-metokodafojede-rawijesobiraxev.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/1/0433/9980/7126/files/debane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5852/8405/files/rimunovulagedize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wupukibasabozuxijixosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4160/4263/files/kanategoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/29318048561.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2862/7108/files/nokit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4216/9244/files/7490326432.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4069/3662/files/shell_shockers_hacks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5031/1579/files/youtube_discord_webhook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9958/5696/files/alliteration_assonance_onomatopoeia_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2563/6248/files/kipewatupog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3650/6272/files/skyrim_better_vampires.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nelafujadodejofit.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_off00004a2a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A2A 5132 bytes
SHA-256: e5f08585e5fa908a544e6dd384bc1642b05587936d8b3459d28f5cb82857e927
font_01_sfnt_off00005bb6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BB6 8900 bytes
SHA-256: 2edfef9057ece517a33ec5600a143685729c919679383efe77a0e9c433e53ed4