Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adbae6ac677848ac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 22:30:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 477d22249f44ecfc7b798625c319935e SHA-1: 65bd603f5086f02559acc021e96a3b87f148dd2c SHA-256: adbae6ac677848ac4a10745033d2d9a93a400ce2d463904a40983d73090e9d18
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector identified by the heuristic. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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.ru/pify?keyword=anfotericina+b+complejo+lipidico+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.adventuresinwhitewater.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695741/semexivikitol-zidojamenodej-sinijo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.esoteric-alchemy.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384113/saziropaxisi_xoxetimodukum_zujisalanovuku_vulofobez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.goringgapinbloom.org.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683292/dipizefe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.prospectingmimeticfractals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453124/fotoli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lowoti.birichinokids.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775085/jizakoxujo.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/1/0433/3161/6923/files/fekasodoz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1642/1529/files/16010656124.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2167/2341/files/90819025774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3152/6557/files/separation_process_engineering.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4085/7494/files/23901222340.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3511/2103/files/appreciative_inquiry_steps.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9071/4532/files/memugatugi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6374/6465/files/cycling_cap_pattern.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0336/0926/files/english_to_english_dictionary_file_free_download.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2641/4743/files/42417868319.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1480/5914/files/electronically_sign_preview_mac.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1157/0838/files/48428778257.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_off00009b15.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B15 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 4f5b14d427aba064d06453acc50c37b72f89aceaa9ffa10c81c0cace20b8473e
font_01_sfnt_off0000ad14.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD14 14900 bytes
SHA-256: eda7ce6112c8b3190ec4615acefacd35e6d5a9d6071cd1d1f9ad340f795efbcc

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