Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6c0cad2d94a6590…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-24 21:19:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: d52b2f499116de7126344ded9befba14 SHA-1: 0a405f518267a72c3bcc140a1712691e0cc61695 SHA-256: a6c0cad2d94a6590d9543089426c044a0447cde927ec1b49ef4ac2dd05c7f045
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link leads to a URL associated with known malicious infrastructure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=cabala+hermetica+marcelo+del+debbio+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://dewuvilu.epls1.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/ligorokasiviwarev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://juxidub.leannascachetti.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874276/dbfa5fc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.aplusdecoratingservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775186/bukuzugegafu_pigaxop_suwojizuzipuke.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/1/0456/4477/5591/files/foolproof_financial_literacy_answers_module_2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0652/3552/files/pittsburgh_steelers_qb_injury_report.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7215/0947/files/the_bookseller_of_kabul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9363/8811/files/vasekawokazeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8499/5991/files/moluwuzub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0728/7206/files/pofelawafoxadidizole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nuruge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2087/0044/files/traducir_de_aleman_a_espaol_gratis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1546/1285/files/christinia_debarge_goodbye.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2089/files/node_js_gitignore.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_off000060ab.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60AB 5260 bytes
SHA-256: 292c66bc3e4d668d874cd9cdfb8a72bc84943d0a9177e7c5d5a7118e9244f350
font_01_sfnt_off00007266.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7266 11832 bytes
SHA-256: d4bf080f3c42ab6fba268162e9758a9187b48f5aa702ad158807297fd68f07c3

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