Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c33690a2d5e51c52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.1 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:09:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: c037ccca7abcc972ca8cfccd2b7804e0 SHA-1: 80b43f447b4b8ef35d8c50a7529ed0795c1c403f SHA-256: c33690a2d5e51c52c62436c13cf343502c86f23d7f7c72dac6d12c77558401ca
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link disguised as a game development guide, which redirects to a known malicious URL. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive document, leading to a malicious redirector.

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.com/wix?keyword=the+ultimate+guide+to+game+development+with+unity+2019+pdf In 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://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7e136b3e22ea48c59343d51277a2b9ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f270c_5ebb93f450e54ce68829ddd69ba800b8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ca09c_56f907fa06dd415d8d98ce9dacbc28c0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/36f25b_af0615dcf9ec44aebb09fc69a6da2ebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/34814945003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/ruveworosanufunikobit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4248/7972/files/how_to_convert_cdf_file_into_file.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nasidobedibugamis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/problem_solving_skills_assessment_questionnaire.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1706/files/45760467351.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6189/3534/files/mcq_medical_laboratory_technology.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bdacf10884604719b5fe5f97e6c3203c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e1f893424f6f45a6bf6d60411436a869.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/384ea4_a4d209618bbc49ebbe3d03c5df9d4d0e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da1b1a8103a14a45aa0ef5dd491053d8.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008ae8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AE8 5748 bytes
SHA-256: 9c03a50652c2025531eab4dddaf589443e2e323221516dd5def255d0b75833c4
font_01_sfnt_off00009e7a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E7A 10304 bytes
SHA-256: b42ac674367d32b9970eed3a707a07e774c3319cbfd56db7f0ca6eda46be1a3c
font_02_sfnt_off0000c1f6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC1F6 16448 bytes
SHA-256: bc6d684f813ac1c32be8bd0fe15b7813cdddcd900b6f98dcbbe4bb93017ec79b
font_03_sfnt_off0000d84e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD84E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3