Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5a8ebc5d6e7c79a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:24:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-09
MD5: e72e90368c3eb111a892e9ede8322d6a SHA-1: c3d2b34f0ed43a6f8d44781b752edf48342760b9 SHA-256: d5a8ebc5d6e7c79abcc8e25ea04e24c50995dada3c9328e2c738a54222f0a7f7
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged as malicious by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating a redirector link to a known malicious domain. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes the URL that triggered the heuristic, suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports a link farm or redirection tactic.

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/pify?keyword=five+types+of+adsorption+isotherm+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.rsvptravelvisas.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695636/2074909.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drgvick.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738911/ralosijinis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.usmilitaryhonors.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606526/8706758.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fontawesome.iohttp://fontawesome.io/license/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8307/0629/files/75018892040.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6152/files/10937730087.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9900/5863/files/gimp_documentation.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2141/7122/files/kista_epidermoid_adalah.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3275/6902/files/jirukav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7541/9798/files/retalipolilivegasisomezo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8178/files/78271316265.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/romanticism_characteristics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9389/4044/files/6036130603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8217/6920/files/vokuxarejuzewuge.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/lowes_wheelersburg_ohio.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_off0000b37f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB37F 1768 bytes
SHA-256: c588eea8a047fa4eb07f542ba62fadfac9dd8622540312fe82fba6e77ad909b0
font_01_sfnt_off0000bc01.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC01 5368 bytes
SHA-256: 214f325fb162c195ed6db943d5bde075fc4006df20f317539c9d6f49c7692ebb
font_02_sfnt_off0000ce27.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCE27 12732 bytes
SHA-256: e8c4021bc485039b01fd1571662f57d8288aba297c02da73c8e958b5622e1c69
font_03_sfnt_off0000f7e0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF7E0 16192 bytes
SHA-256: b5682870b59277f122a7b73a3e153b638509675612808f534710e7f5036a4878