Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9fe93d9cb9fc2a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:23:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: ef102a07ff2b9d6a6b7d3bc6e4959d02 SHA-1: b383ee96f15b99dc2158fd3e4e1c3f176f75fdab SHA-256: a9fe93d9cb9fc2a298cb6da7c14c0d0b12a0ae02b9662c4568ba087dbc9a9c83
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file contains numerous links to external resources, masquerading as a download lure. The primary link directs to a known malicious redirector infrastructure, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content or exploits. The presence of a visual download button and the ML classifier's high confidence score further support the malicious nature of this document.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=alberto+moravia+pdf+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.renaultsparesscotland.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438142/6912985.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://somobone.abesboatrental.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/e942b68b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ipmed.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871433/4655583.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://muteni.angeldesignsbyjane.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/goxajav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.powdermillbusinesscenter.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695392/cd9536b798.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/1/0433/8932/1366/files/applied_mathematics_1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6274/5501/files/pujivoratenugowobuboror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7980/2782/files/60915420859.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3301/0074/files/apc_smart_ups_1500_user_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/pavape.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8072/1311/files/sogomebap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4030/1478/files/bojopujovurute.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2425/9992/files/sikes.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4746/0768/files/zewatuzimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0586/9217/files/lebajatakolave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4171/7414/files/pdf_to_word_converter_mobile_app_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8340/6239/files/66115488059.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_off0000673c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x673C 5292 bytes
SHA-256: c60d18fe5b065d676d89b968a46c158a07d2684120467d7fa008af9598f2880b
font_01_sfnt_off0000792f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x792F 10332 bytes
SHA-256: bc8c59d8a30dac718b1dc96b0c908c27108f7e7ab1879287428c2dff99e9df74