Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae3a077c1b424706…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:04:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e9cf847cdb958d0203c2b2df13e583eb SHA-1: 13bfce319fc95f6bf6c871b67cdf22219511d768 SHA-256: ae3a077c1b424706c01919f7582c06186b2d4bafad8d7b7d953fff3685d7947e
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, disguised as 'Lithium battery shipping guidelines 2019'. The document also contains a mass external PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. The presence of a callback lure suggests a potential phishing or scam attempt.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=lithium+battery+shipping+guidelines+2019 In PDF document text
    • http://winusowik.lindavandoorn.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/8656d3f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pakuk.stmaryssilverstream.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871674/lamuxakofov-nopetuwu-zaxojinulolo-zifitadipiluvi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kogex.sodageorgia.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712413/zunobu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vugopepo.steveedwardssolo.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/6817038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thefreelancingmommy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738889/50e81.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/1/0435/5876/4696/files/80545449685.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11067845032.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5036/0232/files/colored_text_in_discord.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0449/3987/files/xasumelupogakokavuburalul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2317/9677/files/exercice_anglais_be_ing_present_simple.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85583151980.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/3785448733.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2454/files/fuxam.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vibemegabixowosepabotabux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5505/5002/files/25191030339.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8271/9136/files/xisigepukobesoxomusejile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3258/8966/files/cardiac_amyloidosis.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_off0000640a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x640A 6036 bytes
SHA-256: 0d21c7a3728a83ddfc6f6fcbe2b77c39bf0bff6b058ba4c7c1d78b9d991c8ebd
font_01_sfnt_off0000786f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x786F 10616 bytes
SHA-256: 9575e88a09e2e3f132f49aa50ca69c519cee8e2af05b348ce94962e21a72c1a9