Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa92b11d1a8e462a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 18:20:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 427d1354b2411d4461df66ce3b713abe SHA-1: c26ed6bb9dd84fb4f8cdae3880946fec38d68a64 SHA-256: aa92b11d1a8e462a2265c437f717667d7538dab916cb7707e5c186c2190f276e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a URL associated with malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically mentioning 'kaspersky antivirus security 2018 free' as a lure. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to attract victims. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL, reinforcing the lure. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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=kaspersky+antivirus+security+2018+free In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8a419d_ab29031af43f4f0595ba570aaccf4c73.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_898e8e7762264120a1679a80c3bdadeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_31b9de4785a74f6d8c7e70ad1ce593df.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_aedb5b6b9225483bbe6eefc18e99b606.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b935ffb06d364bbbab26a4ffbc5f59e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/37321e_974363a032cc4cf0a15e233107d76b58.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6116da_d1fa686f73e34e43b35f5f61830b0724.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a467d2_03389f0e61974aca8b90901730cc0d91.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb4c03_92ac9c8cd0a44dd0bcb04733ebeb7042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a43ec6_047ec828a76a43d6b905cb200a245047.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ab5ed_9a7231486b9a41559b32e9834022c552.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_5998f632040b4e949ed515777155480d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_842f0a29e73249dfb1bd2778fd06fb41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6080/4249/files/44339223185.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8810/2051/files/namubakisino.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0998/1085/files/meriwapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4957/3784/files/xosusonisubagumus.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
    • https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/licenses/In PDF document text
    • http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006c16.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C16 6416 bytes
SHA-256: 4103f12eb2d3fd5ce81f4dfd6de156bb127b7b020113f77f3e4d9c5a57060399
font_01_sfnt_off00007be1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BE1 5692 bytes
SHA-256: f754acbc6344683d25dc5ac15714e81ddb7e3da3c89a70b1ea2adb2be1dcc374
font_02_sfnt_off00008f6c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F6C 14400 bytes
SHA-256: 0cf9ad041ebe86de755144fdc51e16f402513b223e20d53427ad1e8caf6df607