Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a009f3dcf279a7d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 15:31:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 97b971e8b70c9c43e5a7b189d047d10a SHA-1: 2acfc80ab7961758260af9e1763d81797cdfa4dc SHA-256: a009f3dcf279a7d27aa0164420cf7f3f681d9f95a04963a34cc18a132cae858f
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate this is a PDF link farm, likely designed to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=religion+altered+states+of+consciousness+and+social+change+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stitchedbyknight.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814680/949333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.lukegasser.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380305/didoduro-laxazuvuzeguru-gifavik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bandedbird.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163718/fenovonupepuxud-gejubibonikuk-jazimi.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/1/0432/5123/7022/files/ruzifiduxepinirag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0044/6626/files/xizomunozimelewuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1566/6849/files/19923627934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/28841304428.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1501/8392/files/10959478753.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3282/files/mopaziguxefixane.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9160/7190/files/74966642977.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5365/9798/files/96264477921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7853/3791/files/how_to_speak_french_fluently.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8764/3302/files/36864747861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/52299098946.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

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Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004a4b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A4B 5424 bytes
SHA-256: 05f4b6536dcdc52d2a78ae35ac864ab3e473076a32a0f6f536000b6b3c905a6c
font_01_sfnt_off00005cbd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CBD 10484 bytes
SHA-256: 68a2268d7e5f3f8a0cb483378c8c496c38aefe45597f3c0ad19f449d266dd197

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