Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2ff0d8b975df07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-07-28 08:00:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3c3701ed27678ed9afa7a860b725ae92 SHA-1: 31ce393cc405a908ed85ebc12c2f867663bd84ba SHA-256: ae2ff0d8b975df07d774fb6fc618d76afb715fdae8745af566c23be3cf9a0e2a
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate that this is likely part of a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The document body itself is largely unreadable, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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=catalogo+de+cuentas+nif+2019+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.konzacoffeecompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775490/tumadigemebumewudeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.ml-journeys.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397946/rugazin-jatixapojex-konosaromiwen.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.santacruzrotary.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813827/zogikanev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.youngcalebcarrbowtie.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775558/rubujados-pisodopawenama.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.hawaiijudaica.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/pukafapajum-titax-lejizabosifixuw.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/1/0427/9320/5916/files/magumemamenatex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6394/8950/files/xupovotet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/gixuwoke.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31903895201.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6439/2866/files/pusewizubutekipumuno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8783/8886/files/5044687653.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4116/0344/files/42622409468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8797/0975/files/83933693617.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6310/0070/files/tifawifugazirafenur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nisej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0200/2584/files/34764016663.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_off000075e7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75E7 5612 bytes
SHA-256: d97249914519ba5ad7fa67b6e1945bdc2c85fa1aceb76b21a076633e1af08668
font_01_sfnt_off00008923.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8923 10856 bytes
SHA-256: 67253f5d2f82f53de7903b74fadb37cb5a931e600253ee66582c9bee0a1bc79d