Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a964c0e52e70b1ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 21:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 57605be4cd2d203b55a41cfb5ea4a316 SHA-1: 0680a1dec66ef8d1af4a240caff2961d481ea815 SHA-256: a964c0e52e70b1eefb0186f1e4e5e3f4bee44556100dcdf922684ee71632911d
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL. This indicates the PDF's primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of numerous shopify.com links suggests an attempt to blend in with legitimate content.

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=feiertage+aargau+2020+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.kristindraws.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969190/195c170.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.johnnylayne.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164081/girizekelaz-vudifaguka-fugaduwave-naxaponop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.madebyloulou.net/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871891/59bfb6ba928ffb6.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/1/0441/1247/8360/files/kanopig.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6593/3985/files/30196563220.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8950/2110/files/clinical_chemistry_bishop_6th_edition_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8135/7725/files/pdf_page_splitter.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6878/3782/files/pakuxoramixeret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1746/9080/files/jukonakoxi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9635/6504/files/87028902046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2797/9678/files/crossed_eyes_meme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3495/8229/files/annotate_in_ibooks.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8178/5753/files/66169736881.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2149/1621/files/13082527243.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_off00006fc3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC3 5228 bytes
SHA-256: c6cc971005718b5742f88c365a25a040f3223a4c704353c6b02333b56dd58504
font_01_sfnt_off000081a1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81A1 14188 bytes
SHA-256: 35530daea85b053cd07714cb1f4ce5055b0c5c3ce15df56b029502ca9b716123

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