Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b147836b31c3fd4d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-25 02:39:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 10a66711304bd172a8b969b53064f507 SHA-1: 1dad0156cce92caa9b07a83259dc10c2ca9b8481 SHA-256: b147836b31c3fd4d8d226b16185075a335b32b40a64025f90665d7181164d96f
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, masquerading as a free trial for Microsoft Access 2000. This is further supported by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic firing. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains obfuscated text and multiple links, some of which point to potentially benign Shopify URLs, but the primary redirector is the main threat.

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.
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • 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=microsoft+access+2000+free+trial In PDF document text
    • http://rusoviri.pineriverassociation.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454526/zoxuf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.themindfulsquad.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969701/vifenezozigupa-tefodarumagoleb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tedov.volunteerfirefightersassociationoklahoma.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/add21573d2357b.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.learningforcharity.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695432/8496480.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.appleprint.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407148/0a6622cc7724e1d.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/1/0430/9378/6791/files/el_bautismo_del_espiritu_santo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1519/8104/files/screw_thread_types.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9163/9968/files/aquaculture_practices.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9866/1279/files/gimef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/7802/8183/files/jovalatisifogivobipemepaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7812/3680/files/cgegis_table_2012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4023/4902/files/koxuxotef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5865/8469/files/sepafabesukorowurarebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0057/8723/files/letapetovuserakif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5173/5448/files/gujegukoxepov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/wsh_incident_reporting_sample.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_off000050b9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50B9 5156 bytes
SHA-256: 17c914f9ff6ad1961e226c162870edcb718299caab0c217cb69758b03cad1907
font_01_sfnt_off0000624e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x624E 10036 bytes
SHA-256: d1c1818eadcffb9dcdb292939c69680fb9dbfa826c395752c6aed12d386ede5d