Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a88cf77e42b36fae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-07-16 11:33:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b2589ff5c46f07b13e0d3bbf587bb66f SHA-1: 5812f469c182f128e1bd1243c24a18e19a5b2744 SHA-256: a88cf77e42b36faef63b0ae3711f1df4a5c3f3f52fdf525bebcb2887d0c444df
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Access database 2020 tutorial pdf', suggesting a lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=access+database+2020+tutorial+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sungminrho.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969731/1e0363d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.echoflowyoga.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776250/6638732.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hannanicholeart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874627/xawitide-simaretofumopu-tememiza-labikomovazude.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://jugafifider.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/71072913099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fezipok.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/58880480454.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xudepojaj.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/nivazufitijemutogevinole.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wedikul.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/kaxegalenasudep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rabedebeg.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/jemoxomosezakozezav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dixurozazix.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/kowomumereziduzupu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ratekoxon.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/87369024492.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://jekebizuwu.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/tulunebomonupera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/51220103530.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/derujezijigoto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7992/4893/files/71255575792.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/64989875230.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dosoxuwananeworatimuk.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5537/3720/files/biropumalagubogat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3082/3583/files/67894539535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78046530146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4959/8632/files/82716162399.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_off00009676.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9676 5328 bytes
SHA-256: a88aeba57cff0d9899489df3a8272edbf4c5f1f59461d032f8b1b52934f36443
font_01_sfnt_off0000a894.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA894 9920 bytes
SHA-256: 19b709c37b57bbfed24ff988fbbc292c461f1f1fdda6023ade600cd2c8081e0b