Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aebb3282690dfdfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-23 18:40:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 0fbce74eb105f027c6d41cb3c51da4da SHA-1: a666f8fc971de289665551bb9e0e8b257722e053 SHA-256: aebb3282690dfdfb2adfd1558b6af535f5edb1896d0a7c452dbe544f2132aaa7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'bodyweight training for mass pdf' and the malicious URL. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further malware downloads or phishing pages.

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.com/pify?keyword=bodyweight+training+for+mass+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://lalujiw.hdblues.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437622/f74de03e1c17dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kugavo.churchwellness.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874588/jijufipuko_pikora.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jerseycarpets.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380875/gexakegopapox_perujopodi_rikuguzivus_vimaw.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/1/0432/1447/1330/files/xazodapesekabeperij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4352/8609/files/sexanik.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8863/2213/files/application_vnd_ms_word.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1458/5509/files/68595477027.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4229/0336/files/tivafevi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1283/2931/files/annamaria_testa_farsi_capire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/9073/1169/files/up_deled_2nd_semester_date_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/wupitefanesesoretijebuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8365/3527/files/kibifezofo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5123/8047/files/walujarilatulefota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5127/6696/files/ap_revised_pension_rules_1980_in_telugu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7396/1126/files/nolijitajuxun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3419/7666/files/xagigijutebabipekipedu.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_off0000874a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x874A 5664 bytes
SHA-256: 1fb87356ed347fc4a9072cfacc1a11ec8d70286a071c6abf25b6603a22035c7b
font_01_sfnt_off00009a80.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A80 10192 bytes
SHA-256: 1eb88c6d79c6a5bc91c99ad604902fca100be446dc3f5beee758b687df1015b9