Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a538b31a509616…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 11:43:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: b808bcb46fdc05c8e2fef720894eab62 SHA-1: 7d117312b1c960cd1fc55db4a4619c1f084d0a8f SHA-256: d5a538b31a50961628e7da01f720e695dad85f4f56e91d3604bc888f42d742b8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an English vocabulary test and includes the malicious URL. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt where the user is lured to a malicious site under the guise of an educational resource. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further execution chains.

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.ru/pify?keyword=english+vocabulary+test+for+beginners+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.dreamplanitevents.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871687/8614148.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.mrober.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738554/3944755feaa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kitawaw.stephanieparadiso.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/runuxewigufedikitako.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/1/0431/8376/7713/files/anime_girl_running.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4481/4500/files/wotododoma.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0005/2387/files/bomeme.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5533/4055/files/luvasomelosokib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3654/0069/files/melezepilefijowubi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0058/5632/files/sefimuzi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4244/6231/files/html_document_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9635/8565/files/try_food_lovers_review.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3077/2901/files/gefalesiveziwugarenebatij.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4525/6344/files/bokaravopot.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_off00008bf4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BF4 5560 bytes
SHA-256: 0e63dae16f1fe2f91d272f57283002f3f1cbd591799198d71e7a17d5b3a84484
font_01_sfnt_off00009ed4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9ED4 10476 bytes
SHA-256: eb023d38af019e161514d0d45f8efb0e3ef8aa25c9e1faa25fae498603d4b300
font_02_sfnt_off0000c2a9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2A9 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333

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