Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8ff5869d686a6e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 21:52:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 2b4534dadb021efda923cbfec7dd3c3e SHA-1: fcc3b47001417627f7c8c782737f280e29c65536 SHA-256: a8ff5869d686a6e6cc1234f0b18890b1da26ab3432b069c9db6a36af4d09d391
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or phish users. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, making it difficult to determine the exact nature of the lure.

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=s.+a.+o.+c+full+form In PDF document text
    • http://xuzenup.runninsranch.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437626/wikerepoviravabik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vijibur.wemooveit.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681862/9581200.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/1/0449/3859/2424/files/malayala_manorama_calendar_may_2020.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4164/2906/files/24085773418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0763/0747/files/metronidazol_suspensao_bula.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1845/files/vinojomewobuku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5460/4198/files/automation_engineering_technology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7285/5967/files/canon_eos_200d_specifications.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8534/0580/files/90822328101.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4834/5500/files/pisivesagaxejojuxorefo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5552/0673/files/anexar_sei.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9829/2638/files/free_printable_welcome_banner_template.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_off000059e3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59E3 4984 bytes
SHA-256: 0f53eb5de615bb42e2235cecce378d9a3b58ea2670adc8f2981cb4687b5dda44
font_01_sfnt_off00006ab6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AB6 10292 bytes
SHA-256: 0e6212f5597411eee50b3f1ff32a3a23d59d50c2902d993978ea9ee3bd6d2669

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