Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afc455b6ba7864f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-07-30 13:00:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: edd68d218af1072583117f8e9e9dc572 SHA-1: 3034e9ad0c4d3a8907e85d47550e27a4cdca1098 SHA-256: afc455b6ba7864f1b0e65ec74c0e1dfaf2d86135c40b0f2696e2f48b8b21f808
250 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating malicious intent, including links to known malicious redirectors and a PDF link farm designed for SEO manipulation. The document body, though truncated, suggests a lure for 'pdf to dwg converter 2020 crack free download', aligning with the 'Browser extension / update installation lure' heuristic. The embedded URLs point to a redirector and a benign Shopify link, suggesting a multi-stage download or redirection process.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 8

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=pdf+to+dwg+converter+2020+crack+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.mikesoffice.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438128/e8b072b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bellycomesfirst.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815095/pukeb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stokesed508webpage.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874102/3861708.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bethanywelchfitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874612/8ae5ec226e.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/1/0430/7278/2489/files/lagibiduxomuvuguperox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7391/1449/files/kitorof.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0679/4651/files/64691517576.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7223/3376/files/43218891754.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2444/0729/files/28107659215.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/julepugumaxanaditodat.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6965/1609/files/65907533628.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8795/files/13549562115.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4172/6370/files/depokusifakiwewiga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3137/9619/files/52262365584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7261/8657/files/vakekegidozibemave.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7188/8803/files/xojalufotopamesopezepe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2093/5590/files/laxowowudagi.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_off0000720d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x720D 5240 bytes
SHA-256: 7f2b1f4e449ef5e80e5180f9d4f197c7cc8de213578d7be949c768cdf57c19cd
font_01_sfnt_off00008401.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8401 10120 bytes
SHA-256: 96239a39171eac12c40807d5346077924f1414aa8b077eee0b493fadfff2ff05