Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0e8f6076556445f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 18:06:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 72ac050718de050e2fb4aa7a7984fe11 SHA-1: 8566e4c3c649c927c94b687b422ccec3ffae98ae SHA-256: a0e8f6076556445fcb6a4e442e79c65e737954a1dd9e04565158259e9599872c
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, disguised as election information. The document body also contains the malicious URL, indicating a lure to trick the user into clicking the link. The PDF was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a common tool for creating PDFs from web content, suggesting it was likely assembled to host the malicious link.

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=andhra+pradesh+assembly+elections+2020+candidates+list+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.bellcreekagility.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436981/7642610.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sparkyourrockstar.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/7383480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zelexerob.med2u.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398455/xaxote-liraramulemiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.elizabethaknox.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873717/6728640.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mattleemitchell.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606758/gabera-febafubobusawat-gepotabimisap.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/1/0432/1725/6603/files/18851529953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0916/9815/files/kisegefu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0328/1571/files/copy_banner_minecraft.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/1220/5216/files/always_and_forever_heatwave_sheet_music.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7792/7072/files/fanatiwu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5561/9994/files/drdo_ceptam_8_notification.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7353/6149/files/15988763049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1541/3661/files/61518420712.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6710/3645/files/nivetojanafabajukonapujux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7246/3772/files/91961405792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8260/3927/files/54813838960.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4886/9786/files/pobobop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2454/files/cade_simu_ejercicios_resueltos.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_off0000d717.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD717 5688 bytes
SHA-256: 99e6d37b76909f576c82f96b2729e2169ca47505b30d1e7d859dc8b7802db79a
font_01_sfnt_off0000ea3b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA3B 14956 bytes
SHA-256: 41ee2ba9110a5dcd7f35d9afb9d53cd42499ea88b942040c47e89ea1f4655a3b
font_02_sfnt_off00011890.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11890 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e