Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d52e009e8da8ab7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-09-09 17:22:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: aa48c6899cc117c439a698925036f0e3 SHA-1: 7a416e844ddf773f8fcf1578d5e22c80dacabc92 SHA-256: d52e009e8da8ab7f7a0b454cc5edfcf14321a8fd7ad88cac49caad7ade88e56e
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector identified by heuristics. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.me/pify?keyword=criminal+movie+songs++free In PDF document text
    • http://files.oakcreekzc.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636769/645e755caeb41.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.landofclearlight.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682989/gosetozerafodux.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dumotubus.needsofmany.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/wukebalefulimotir.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/1/0453/6372/4443/files/37722125830.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6860/5095/files/donell_jones_all_her_love.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40336e_2b8cb3676f014de7859fa6fe2a95f2ae.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/29c71c_b78e89b790c34ea6b18b1dd78296e54e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a593f_9f5bccb8cafe40abbda827793c5bdb2a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/966478_6647f72cf5d34aca869d7489cf073f2e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/756799_bbd35f29903445c1b00f6789780e69b5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ba634_a54164dc9aaf4373ac525ab03fa33bd1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_d1cedefb8ea54d5d9f407afce9940426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5d855_e8a3996755d042e3b420f4689e26bde9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_4eafcd8dc15542cd91214262a2b36790.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

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Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008160.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8160 4876 bytes
SHA-256: 9b07efb5cd8dd7bcadff95a3bd6c091ce62cbbc90b43153e909f94422286d19c
font_01_sfnt_off000091d6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91D6 13092 bytes
SHA-256: 71ec215c958ae7dd03faea44e13de051111b618d67fc383dd59a2226e2eb7341
font_02_sfnt_off0000bc3e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC3E 4324 bytes
SHA-256: b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c

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