Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1c8ff25a7b7c54f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:07:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: a922a28104748f423c36d47124af771e SHA-1: 84fa13b07d0ac91a0fa10cbadae9f74a97e1c159 SHA-256: a1c8ff25a7b7c54f5ff7e1a99053521ed2ebeb0073c3194ec1d4b25765e39e68
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector service, which is a common tactic for delivering malicious payloads. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an admission exam, likely serving as a lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final destination. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.com/pify?keyword=examen+de+admision+ceneval+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.marineoasis.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813866/vogusuromipefer-jerogi-fulusenakebi-jojixefuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.kmphotographyma.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407165/1126974.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.theimpactexplorer.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303278/togunukewanono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bejoro.thewanderingbays.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/givofufabumowukap.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/1/0432/7378/1416/files/rapoj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2197/6220/files/fadirisijurugex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7189/6736/files/silent_letters_esl.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5107/7032/files/el_alcoholismo_en_los_adolescentes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8890/3325/files/jodujugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8515/1897/files/45370782234.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5627/5362/files/94234398760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3461/5708/files/sisalememofiko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9581/8397/files/13892978814.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/wudafetaluzoweta.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5495/6695/files/28606983057.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0329/7438/files/59173401639.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000075fc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75FC 5292 bytes
SHA-256: 7e7ef3190fb394af45f3094e4e7e723eab2ab4c70c2760b28b0076514641bc00
font_01_sfnt_off000087f4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87F4 1912 bytes
SHA-256: e9f8a3ef788f0cbd16162dfcacf3538d4d9f72d83e44e67f72eb93bd53224865
font_02_sfnt_off00009123.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9123 14744 bytes
SHA-256: df222da38282f2b0235ef9957a3898421a9c2368685a532bb322030182db555c
font_03_sfnt_off0000bee3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEE3 16312 bytes
SHA-256: aad9bc0f36eadc3314e08670b59090120051e308b357201f134af3d0b781b2b0