Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da03dc456023abdb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 10:33:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 93b66ccd824bd0770ab5f08f6b5754eb SHA-1: 20d58ec52f7724e5167837e0c6fde8beaf905aa0 SHA-256: da03dc456023abdb80355006d3be2a4ce0bba171a011bf895104950b4f88a9e6
234 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm and a specific malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Ultimate 836 angle- izer diy template tool' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a fake tool or resource. The presence of multiple embedded links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector, strongly suggests a phishing attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • LOLBin token sequence in document text high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Extracted document text contains a Windows script/execution tool name (PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, regsvr32, …) within 220 characters of a dangerous flag, command verb, or URL. This is a visible 'run this' instruction in HTML/PDF/RTF lure bodies, or — in macro-laden Office files — the macro's own string-pool entries appearing adjacent in extracted text.
  • 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=ultimate+836+angle-+izer+diy+template+tool In PDF document text
    • http://pejefa.achievewe.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740930/rogebapinatibo_bodebumirodi.pdfIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://files.georginarosannamurray.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453024/rafifesusora.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/1/0433/9793/9349/files/kijifunuralafubovimubafe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3161/5909/files/sitecore_powershell_change_template.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2873/4367/files/pdf_file_attachment_settings.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4452/7525/files/acog_fetal_heart_monitoring_guidelines.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3165/7638/files/fefuginuwemigurekafoliw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6758/0322/files/30714814413.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5349/9046/files/semipuxelis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9623/6447/files/64647361000.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/50537202024.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1021/8391/files/33195161677.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2243/3953/files/windows_8._1_bootable_iso_image_free.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
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/filIn macro / runtime command snippet
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000505e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x505E 5788 bytes
SHA-256: 4e728e57cf616704acf9e0856be0615a946db130367b5a349b36628880e84674
font_01_sfnt_off00006402.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6402 10604 bytes
SHA-256: ef5639cb5c1c20bc2737a57fb99f787c441d930f5632d526ad00ce0db7635bbc