Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1cff0730da07c45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 22:44:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 01518f2580b4bd6822008a00876d6f5c SHA-1: 72e6dd18a1e8cc9ceb84f58e3418b8f293a70004 SHA-256: a1cff0730da07c453db0da1c705717eecb64569699a0601469a2edac7a232dec
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the malicious URL. This suggests the primary goal is to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=ballpen+drawing+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.ecabalquinto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739713/duxenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mikeflattdesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776462/7be355f8b5a2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mobiledetailinglasvegas.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968921/cd3bd1.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/1/0435/8579/8301/files/fakofuromilos.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1054/6070/files/typewriter_font_tattoo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8904/4383/files/gomuwefalerufagup.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/waterimiwujinabumojep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5774/0967/files/adjective_modifiers.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5971/1898/files/climates_of_tamriel_sse.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8236/6629/files/mosip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3550/8387/files/art_commission_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1884/4322/files/28641210157.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/gululefopatire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7370/7925/files/caesalpinia_coriaria.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_off0000b2ea.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EA 5172 bytes
SHA-256: 0a57a3e5d43da40575d11287bda62e90c5b130e329634c9159a6f1e0cec2ca47
font_01_sfnt_off0000c4ac.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC4AC 10496 bytes
SHA-256: b4defe02e018197084102ec553331b68843d24c867b1193110080c105b6db58a

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