Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d8dc797786b3cf87…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-09 11:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 8046ade002171f4c0be17035968c2fe0 SHA-1: a93135131f14444f7f670b11e854d0cb1690b8e5 SHA-256: d8dc797786b3cf8727ac0b9c745dc69481b32377bd6a98cb07e4a6b407dc688b
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the primary purpose is to lure the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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=tratamiento+quirurgico+del+cancer+de+pulmon+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.sdgphoto.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739016/81c7c81.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.dalmatiansofkentucky.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413766/fefokuriserejot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bakedbythelake.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483955/f4e713cb.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.upperwharfedalechurches.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407958/tidobera-mamuk-zoneg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bodasud.andreanunesdmd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/5301427.pdfIn 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/1/0431/8851/9076/files/14641461812.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4748/3557/files/sosekadekow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2601/4630/files/blank_clock_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0482/9602/files/71611068049.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9660/4825/files/vovorujupekifalubakunizub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/zopapitavuwuxukujumez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1625/5645/files/fifa_football_score_sheet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3287/4901/files/palojinapawiketoxafubo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6593/3985/files/human_biology_mader.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9984/6824/files/david_gray_sail_away.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1174/2628/files/15899390989.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6173/8662/files/essentials_of_cardiopulmonary_physical_therapy_4e.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5453/7624/files/18534137940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5930/4865/files/nakufowiditevov.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3051/9716/files/57617756419.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

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007a32.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A32 5372 bytes
SHA-256: 0fa6148a54062fa5a6e635bc6b0fc9b29f72144d71bc704ea4edcac39531f8f2
font_01_sfnt_off00008c59.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C59 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 74bf07bca8a0cad1d42f41b3b2c6bf4049ad7d14b8457457be803617e3ea1a62