Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aedd38191f950762…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-09-17 07:30:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 4c780a09ea4f0a4b999f01de80fe100a SHA-1: dd3684e2e2c7a5602e9a9734b8099dfb16bb4eb9 SHA-256: aedd38191f95076281e75ba42a7991b2588e873c192eb2667e91a683b9cb7841
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results, with one prominent link directing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting a lure for "Linksys manual setup". The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to host further malicious content 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • 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.club/wix?keyword=linksys+manual+setup In PDF document text
    • http://files.drbrightman.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070362/8526000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.guidomuratorephoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/litibokipedaxozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.webuyhousesderby.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776592/4218807.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bbqgrillsandislands.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776239/gupav.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/1/0432/6440/9764/files/skinny_d_amato.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4831/9638/files/the_behaviourist_theory_of_language_acquisition.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9764/0360/files/wow_classic_vibrant_plume.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/9334/3653/files/20376541398.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://3a677264-47f8-4c72-9c38-a5a512c13b86.filesusr.com/ugd/384ea4_2ddbc3e5a92d4104bdcce622a5cef4e3.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://f4b02bdb-f372-4347-a575-08fb46aaa821.filesusr.com/ugd/565485_37f5ebf157594639b27f85b374608a4a.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://61007730-4495-486c-81ee-aa599e41a6e4.filesusr.com/ugd/eb4c03_d9e084f23437416d9ea164c55c1dc7c7.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://8573986a-b9fd-4564-bd02-4fd0c1eee7f8.filesusr.com/ugd/96564c_c3505c2303814d76b5a8a3d6a6119339.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://b439f17c-60cf-48e4-9dce-a6b4e2272f91.filesusr.com/ugd/724fb5_de6e051dc73841e8821a6ba8c854b44c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://60043e45-c735-4b0e-a7a6-ccb5a2cc93cd.filesusr.com/ugd/0010c8_bf779cb9ed2d4574be859f24b495b29c.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://09fa6ce8-0071-48dd-9704-7b3d35cb110a.filesusr.com/ugd/8e1900_2c74812720da43459ec08247fb18028e.pdf?index=trueIn 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_off000060c0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60C0 4976 bytes
SHA-256: 0d097945e40dc33eb993576b88e0f4b9cc1c200573f4a775668288b9ffa2fecc
font_01_sfnt_off000071a7.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71A7 10456 bytes
SHA-256: abe2e605c870c0734c82ad9a56f4906cf81da58a1459fc6126f29714d415e813

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