Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aceea617c595df71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:57:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 80f173b5934d8176b15c194c42b89e84 SHA-1: 1b8252a3b0415db53a203c84a1f6533cd20fee6b SHA-256: aceea617c595df71ed9bae413e52ebb9d0d31942ce5a66ecba723cddf069c0b5
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the one identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of multiple shopify.com links, while some are benign, is part of a larger link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for malicious 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=medical+biochemistry+questions+and+answers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.stemdreamrecruiters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379456/3555624.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vudaxu.lowernorthcoastdancefestival.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/vaxuwagukowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.southerncrosselearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070561/sovon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.circlecamps.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606730/b0e2093e09ee96d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5794/6519/files/beginning_yoga_routine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3391/9645/files/dubalofuduromizevigone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7886/0454/files/12694590300.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9986/5756/files/latest_mac_os.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7152/8344/files/79220039995.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9029/files/gexinipetavotilivawofadij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7426/4996/files/dobudedazoxaxuko.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0224/6814/files/zebrafish_brain_atlas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3735/9271/files/alison_bechdel_are_you_my_mother.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3127/2351/files/cemento_dental_definicion.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3593/5398/files/kawasaki_z750s_2006.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5167/0943/files/a_monster_calls_patrick_ness.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000531c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x531C 5740 bytes
SHA-256: c3097933ff1fe7ec0bf0b63f3b3cc5037112523497df04222e1a294e7edc2632
font_01_sfnt_off0000667c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x667C 9952 bytes
SHA-256: f5e55a0e60409b4e2b137b6e89ff361b421157101158fd2b51f8872451d6e50a
font_02_sfnt_off00008843.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8843 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34