Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7fad225a7aa569f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:50:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8fabe4819f31ecf58a126ccf63b6c438 SHA-1: 365cb8d703c3e08fbdbf9b90095690d93dd050fb SHA-256: a7fad225a7aa569f9b97992e854eebf2c9ecac9d64c91cf24f8f7f7d5b8f47bc
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. This redirector is designed to lure users by promising a 'car battery charger circuit diagram pdf', likely leading to further malicious content or exploits. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates a social engineering attack aimed at driving traffic to malicious sites.

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=car+battery+charger+circuit+diagram+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rbryantsmith.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739951/nufovepod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.parboldtandoori.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384635/lububekase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.rkspeech.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438249/9075954.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.glutenaciouslife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438180/jibugazubasa_gedufutelesodo_pidawadexinomil_gijisakurujubuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://wasuzibi.redblufffarms.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/701ca80398.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/1/0428/2790/7239/files/fifiwosugowumuraruka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0903/1840/files/year_6_math_worksheets.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/mevutabovelofumerezewamun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3685/9813/files/69291192757.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5596/2522/files/63094243576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0766/2504/files/xazorirawubaza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5658/5114/files/administrao_de_marketing_kotler.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mapiguwidekedod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/angielski_dla_wiecznie_pocztkujcych_chomikuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5928/1061/files/zazilogupilak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2099/9064/files/amenaza_de_aborto_manejo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7590/2363/files/android_versions_and_names.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9069/6597/files/joterobowekod.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_off0000626a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x626A 5508 bytes
SHA-256: 15204929ae30e5e594f31344314fda0e0a9508338944e0c614017f97e961e44a
font_01_sfnt_off00007506.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7506 10456 bytes
SHA-256: 0f498069f56471f9954f7d1357dbe9d1899e47eb030b0970410480afd08d8d39