Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f0c985dc701edde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 10:04:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: fbfdb1ca539e7442a691d15ce2969447 SHA-1: 83b9b1eae0fb8763dc1982a5ef298587fa3c618e SHA-256: 9f0c985dc701eddec28921e9baf7939132697e583435f3a0892cf794f1513e98
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting an attempt to lure the user to malicious infrastructure. The presence of multiple shopify.com links indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine visibility for the malicious content.

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=political+caricature+by+alfred+mccoy+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.expertscontractor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/8074392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rugport.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606366/67e667f9b968.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.write-mindedwoman.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607565/sarinejofoxan-zutotifit.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/1/0436/5054/7870/files/gazagiteguwokizalijesexob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9818/6652/files/dafepowa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3867/7924/files/rigezibuxixijogajevegize.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4206/1986/files/40302198842.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8616/7702/files/defedubejafofosetolot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4921/2309/files/javascript_games_code.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6406/5190/files/fluke_5520a_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1920/5789/files/ryobi_ex26_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8611/7019/files/gewebepeda.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6659/7288/files/97597419681.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1266/9089/files/18990637846.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4012/6614/files/jenukiva.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6275/5490/files/21428450968.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_off000049a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x49A7 5144 bytes
SHA-256: acabf1dd0a8a376cd7d4099cc86569ee614ed9ee64eea93e0c10eb5f2b5de78b
font_01_sfnt_off00005b29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B29 11224 bytes
SHA-256: defdf2e0545ce5435b62d056079a7fa13b5e8eb4bea22b8d950eafbcc21796c7
font_02_sfnt_off00007fbf.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FBF 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e