Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3429cc3750f187e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 559f7dfb945ababe7feed2a2dc550a83 SHA-1: ceccfbf6fa719ab63a8c1bcc8687bdced933f072 SHA-256: a3429cc3750f187e4982b2f3e2d59c63542489aa85599a13c71fd99a18664ed2
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm of numerous PDF files hosted on Shopify, with one primary link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external malicious content. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful site.

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.
  • SEO-redirector lure link (multi-word utm_term) low PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the search-keyword gateway used by the 'free document download' phishing family. Surfaced as an IOC; on its own this is a low-confidence signal.
  • 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=apk+untuk++video+twitter In PDF document text
    • http://dutisu.pagesustainability.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856917/3137921.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/1/0432/2269/6096/files/71327208239.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9431/7981/files/makro_specials_april_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kevimofurerofujasopam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0571/4338/files/3601353954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3923/4967/files/pimazedeluka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5170/3706/files/83736627711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9444/2145/files/panasonic_tv_katalog_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1045/7753/files/wowisililegovafivividu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4377/7694/files/carmina_burana_partitura.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7462/6470/files/99268493276.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3173/2122/files/10721190902.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://twitter.com/PassengersMovie/status/821025484150423557In 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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005dff.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DFF 4740 bytes
SHA-256: 17d5b39605803467089bd1aaf62113a63ee017347323e2913fc7042deb88267e
font_01_sfnt_off00006e44.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E44 10144 bytes
SHA-256: 40a16693904eaa2b86ca98135125e090af1f1b98732ffd60e2ffda0b8438d303