Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b211ffe18afcd59f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 21:46:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1bc8c15e59fbd84938dea0517d46496f SHA-1: 9b90cf8c4126cd640b20e06d687220acff85c006 SHA-256: b211ffe18afcd59f9c348f1312cf5d917074a48bf4974896ac350b4a6b1b78f2
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to a 'guide de l alimentation saine et naturelle pdf'. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS heuristic strongly suggests malicious intent.

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.cc/pify?keyword=guide+de+l+alimentation+saine+et+naturelle+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.villagepharmacy.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814172/filodiwujaj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.newhopemovement.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438079/7127330.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.thesparklingfox.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406592/teguwozo_wawitexowiba.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.powwowdays.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382841/duvum.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/1/0432/9635/8565/files/free_o_reilly_books.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7012/8277/files/zomomowubujedexesenodo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4950/0315/files/jiruzofolelowagipiviz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8368/2212/files/selection_sort_algorithm_c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7374/7609/files/lurevogozosujodopaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/185288378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0465/5773/files/99130185744.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6643/3435/files/xixumetuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8477/5577/files/94891512169.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8804/4442/files/73669967501.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_off00006385.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6385 5220 bytes
SHA-256: 956a02054d7c194351cfb04fcfcfb3153552b0ccc791b615f07f113944b4ee9a
font_01_sfnt_off00007533.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7533 11220 bytes
SHA-256: 9710ee96165f48fe9633fc2569f6666fb27b5b323c59fc4e71c96b2c9021ccba