Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a17b71700fc15776…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 17:08:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4ec19951bb8a18aa4dde2510c644bc68 SHA-1: 973d8f2c6d43e3e3d902f304191331dc41fe0b1d SHA-256: a17b71700fc15776c74ed11fb506785ef5097f60df3f9bd879d0bccc8947617a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also flagged as malicious. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of the payload.

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=management+reporter+2012+process+service+keeps+stopping In PDF document text
    • http://files.grpgifts.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712315/fe63017e6592876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lamifunes.presentingyourpast.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453133/e99365.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.saintlouisspeed.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071082/2727101.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/1/0431/1243/1770/files/17421267175.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/40437832333.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3762/1404/files/34357093866.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7745/1428/files/3006125149.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4615/6960/files/econ_101_homework_4_answers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7407/6315/files/wmor_tv_schedule.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9744/6818/files/dissertation_problem_statement.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0486/files/56700864728.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0898/1152/files/46922828935.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/kuwuninuwewadeju.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_off00005fad.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FAD 5676 bytes
SHA-256: bffd1a32814bdef6a9e1f6e0c8a72227270819536caffd63f7384faa17f50523
font_01_sfnt_off00007301.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7301 10740 bytes
SHA-256: 2c28577838e1113f31b53d95d10c963a3a318f94fffff26ab4cac2858a2a57e9

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