Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fc8e5ffb985aaff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 16:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 179edb0bf38210d83014a78f76bcb74d SHA-1: 7e08891bb265f6dac84fe659aaaef7fb830e9557 SHA-256: 9fc8e5ffb985aaff9ac90c83ae984c9722e6a82b9286a166b7d5770696568b58
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to a 'client quarterly business review template' and includes urgency language. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=client+quarterly+business+review+template In PDF document text
    • http://ritugisud.whiteimprints.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438572/9071640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zodugojef.functionalfitness.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776486/getozuberisegij-zutexejenipov-votufuzizajobug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rafkasfareet1953-56.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069992/lunozuledamudidilowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.balthazarconjure.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131858045/ca7f4a8216f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.shaqisoutthere.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681992/eadd9bcb8be7cb.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/1/0429/6579/4969/files/bamaxudasigemal.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8780/7129/files/devotukefapilaxakokalixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8047/4014/files/10424014457.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0922/0501/files/zomukuvogorixunaxivavofa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/83661228653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3759/5560/files/37411190570.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3633/4501/files/21200589044.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/nefilepijijisidofepunefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7763/2154/files/guxibogagazuniretisode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3759/5560/files/core_java_interview_question_answer_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7955/6504/files/hatoful_boyfriend_steam_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/doxoridapid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4602/files/4069980709.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_off00009020.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9020 5392 bytes
SHA-256: 0cfc7bd3aacc701832c5bebb760b0e4e20f9ecc294e922683173c5d323bbdffc
font_01_sfnt_off0000a271.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA271 10516 bytes
SHA-256: a71cdf1c000e8b323258f6140bef33120fa34a8013abac89aa8b8a25731f643b