Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a50f715637fc09c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.2 KB Created: 2020-08-15 05:16:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8296f094181ca9b682ca5d4170b1d348 SHA-1: 2603f867025b674397f6101869bc95242dd55493 SHA-256: a50f715637fc09c35b0f3ba204d139cc3391b5a8db7c8cc19a326f1962b9aad1
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a PDF redirector link to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=alliance+data+systems+corporation+annual+report+2018', suggesting a phishing or malicious redirection attempt. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Alliance data systems corporation annual report 2018' and references 'wkhtmltopdf', indicating a potential lure. The presence of numerous Shopify URLs, while many are benign, contributes to the link farm characteristic.

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=alliance+data+systems+corporation+annual+report+2018 In PDF document text
    • http://files.countryintheuk.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398461/a9eab4ddcb4fb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://buteta.suzannedemontignycounseling.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695615/rebedisuba_moduzokiwafar_pubujinipiguza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tulepifar.myacexportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407005/segewaduvopi-xutiji.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.nomadicbackpacker.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381976/jozonejajojim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gforceunlimited.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606056/9376217.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/1/0429/9866/1279/files/41110204838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7286/3904/files/pneumatic_actuator_working_principle.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2930/6263/files/38579816934.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9100/0472/files/minecraft_classes_server.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kubogofire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/97792226882.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6244/3683/files/74683106861.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2806/0059/files/ford_f150_owners_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5649/5783/files/62159835193.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9690/7678/files/rules_of_chess_game.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7580/6119/files/don_t_rock_the_jukebox_chords.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1708/3802/files/sapuviposuxilen.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000886c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x886C 5828 bytes
SHA-256: f588112c7928eaee24f60651155c9d2db1ac4bb60657693aa8d287a70061150a
font_01_sfnt_off00009c34.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C34 15328 bytes
SHA-256: 39482708618fdedc4baa658b0867c4827b5f6e03ab4375e416a4ae5bf595c739