Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d92d978a53f33a41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:28:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 5a09126f6babc8b3228b7be9552458b6 SHA-1: ea56fadee4a1b6af5c65cfb2b8895a5a52e15af3 SHA-256: d92d978a53f33a411ea43646059c8600ffaf31cc80b280c54e6584f78a93f4c6
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

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 text, though partially corrupted, includes the phrase "Holland code careers pdf" and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of a malicious redirector link indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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.cc/pify?keyword=holland+code+careers+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.yogaweave.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775429/pudadewuxago.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.marineservicecorps.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607029/69c2d55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sharmilainc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606396/zezizuma-megaj-xedikalif-xereno.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.drtyroneholmes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682039/5044734.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/1/0428/8184/3356/files/xudopakobiduj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9972/4702/files/stay_by_rihanna_lyrics.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8366/8392/files/loxuposugolir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8062/1985/files/40664183819.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8570/9987/files/72142692043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3308/4575/files/personal_development_module.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0356/6486/files/xexubojo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0567/2597/files/firegebosegug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6875/8943/files/jizawive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4695/2351/files/taxix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4220/9945/files/peterirogatanetifozekasug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0546/0125/files/lean_to_shed_plans_free_12x24.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_off00008c7d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C7D 5112 bytes
SHA-256: ad5fa52aaafb8b38e69bd46400ef040225e21ec1dd213b76239849aa7bdb935c
font_01_sfnt_off00009ded.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DED 11252 bytes
SHA-256: 95e5c76cabe0019689369b75cf3f450f853123b36f5c74d0e568361094752de6