Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b319f8b2529eeed0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 07:59:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c2ffe4c45a20a8fca4f50941cb3b01c9 SHA-1: 1a2d387d932e141b74770b7e30e874dc37faa559 SHA-256: b319f8b2529eeed056dfec5769e68e1701b323f02160ae33befe91ae320dae82
202 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external files hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for free downloads, aligning with the observed link farm behavior. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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=autodesk+inventor+tutorial+pdf+free+download In PDF document text
    • http://files.ericbramlett.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379719/21a74592.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jozin.rileysrantings.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606227/6723621.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.taylorgaunt.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776111/d6f70d64a66cf47.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.pctigerfootball.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606598/1d55849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tofojaw.lochatuathnews.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856333/lawexarijezives.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4084/5469/files/free_download_residential_building_plans.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9489/files/2926626674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7488/7590/files/40848991231.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7793/5004/files/x_cargo_sport_20.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/67765795942.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9846/4661/files/zagajufawego.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6982/3390/files/talalawapedakadakelaluve.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/ramabepirak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8644/4696/files/unir_dos_en_linea.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8559/8615/files/using_dictionary_worksheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3331/0870/files/preliminary_general_maths_textbook.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7086/2998/files/kobavidiz.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005203.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5203 5120 bytes
SHA-256: 630f2e01d2663c595e03e0ffae559bf8356b55a95195d764ac0c571c01421c50
font_01_sfnt_off00006387.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6387 9844 bytes
SHA-256: 117d1b664d31142a83ca1adebe68bbffb65fe7571b9833349147e0eb9834fff0
font_02_sfnt_off00008541.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8541 4324 bytes
SHA-256: a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f