Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a01d3127c6dfedf7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 12:25:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b552cb17a347522a1f865789eff10205 SHA-1: c08a85639247c574f6be982d3c8fb0e278a6928e SHA-256: a01d3127c6dfedf7c16c36a988a3448bbc43832c3f721790c3a834d5af48f848
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be a link farm designed to direct users to malicious infrastructure.

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=prefix+and+suffix+meaning+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.anaistorephotographie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411197/gifevav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gipat.ezivase.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438161/vogunovo_zuvotus.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theartistinyourshoes.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453429/357d275f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://fedorahosted.org/lohitIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4253/6604/files/46235394728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0879/4530/files/verunubukaralomesik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6162/2437/files/vifefotuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1281/6034/files/introduction_to_cost_accounting_lecture_notes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1510/8765/files/jolenotiwaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5419/3057/files/81058544979.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8457/0019/files/bar_billiards_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7628/7645/files/holy_quran_with_bangla_pronunciation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6855/5415/files/36435086727.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5514/4347/files/72683502945.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7708/4070/files/rofabeguwujuwirejebo.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007c4e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C4E 3208 bytes
SHA-256: 1d34f140221291442422fa59209702d6024ca7ee28061dabd0deb3732d14d688
font_01_sfnt_off000087ae.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87AE 5396 bytes
SHA-256: b566afec523e707a288d5b9f175d72c852132dd7277a5d73cc3fed513d068e41
font_02_sfnt_off000099f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99F1 13944 bytes
SHA-256: b38ed5c9b7fd05daf09c3a87309a29a45c437a7d81f9c8e471dad56dada9ce84
font_03_sfnt_off0000c5c9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5C9 16244 bytes
SHA-256: dc743b41e5c9b9e4d56ad8c22d1311c6eb3cecbc0d04401a7a33aeed2fa7944a
font_04_sfnt_off0000db72.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB72 2300 bytes
SHA-256: 4cd45b7e1d6bcac2e1fec216823c5ae0069563e9b289993219381b236af58839