Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c39ab0fd9d32de21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 06:26:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b0f111d821b1b981ad9aebb1341ce949 SHA-1: 9340cf07635a6496da6d50db128a4e43291c7e6a SHA-256: c39ab0fd9d32de212d7cb3887fa87ea905112ef28ffb9bf89139ce52c34a1c9a
242 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the redirector found in the heuristics. This suggests the PDF is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The presence of a 'password-protected archive lure' heuristic further supports the idea of a multi-stage attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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/wix?keyword=filefactory+premium+generator In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30e015_3009559f100d44d6999ba6c86a760077.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a86d68_467cb53469c743bcb4f0026b89ccd468.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e61034c7b56a497a8765668b0d447c30.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/fibekamobaboredulagefib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/6354/1659/files/ermanno_scervino_spring_summer_2014.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3282/8314/files/orbit_er.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4868/0089/files/attestation_de_prise_en_charge_financire_d_un_tudiant_majeur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83d902_ff26f5439a3244fb9a8ae9de62f306f5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/764aaa_6ec23fdb406c4c60ad319bb08a473a09.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3ab5ed_09c967cbfc5745fbb1261af992d7a0b2.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6f7f3190808d45b599d585a6502508f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bab8d139f16d40d2aa89387052243d87.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/51c472_5e7b58492b3448e1b721bbb7551856e4.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ea8f9bafac8d4216ac3cc7048b98a996.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f09a9d_a7111751517e4beea2163248d1d8a0af.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066f8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66F8 5212 bytes
SHA-256: 11f7ba91fa8d792b71ccc8d103812987da39d1eddf0756d22399db7da87cef4f
font_01_sfnt_off000078af.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78AF 11144 bytes
SHA-256: 64782193a7e7a89da57d35051c577aafb51f841c53fcad6278b980f7b4a236d3
font_02_sfnt_off00009e6f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E6F 16940 bytes
SHA-256: 4cba404c2e615c3ec792742c91a0b03f07f1e4289ddccf419ab8172da777e5ba