Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8c599ed4bc2be6c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:41:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 33f41748b0efc0b4df8b1e7e6b713147 SHA-1: ef09c28b7f11d98082c134e754da1c8436de21ab SHA-256: a8c599ed4bc2be6cfabda7b15c2785c565e5d03645267681d02799d94d1761bd
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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.com/pify?keyword=breeam+nc+2014+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.splitfingerstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874543/e6d08e261.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fafaba.sonriseseattle.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438563/ba78837c61e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pp-personalprotection.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775370/remutiliv_kuwuxibe_mezebi_jefuvux.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/1/0437/3377/8597/files/36816163453.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6684/1505/files/24117306734.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0727/0312/files/sekiro_hidden_tooth.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8690/9341/files/learn_japanese_workbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/pimadol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9111/5678/files/apprendre_le_japonais_pour_les_nuls.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/8436/2407/files/ansys_apdl_introduction.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0144/6551/files/ropirezetusuzemaga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1750/1853/files/online_attendance_management_system.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4858/2820/files/42494654568.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2903/5158/files/tigopuzujewovida.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5308/0991/files/wevewegaputexaviw.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_off00006602.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6602 5552 bytes
SHA-256: 9e2957f46b13dba5208eeeaa64094e1b7e5b495211ca61bd75840d08823c43fc
font_01_sfnt_off000078d2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78D2 10140 bytes
SHA-256: ec36b2b44815e1eba4e137a491bc99c4d698219529c89d002361e8f411d400ed

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