Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df4a95a089fb6813…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 07:20:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 3dd0683e0f223e4e467122034d61d20c SHA-1: 05c6f206f1c1c6af76048ea4b69d71865f06a29a SHA-256: df4a95a089fb6813a4bb711c2a280b9093798a42edf6c01de657ff6a3e103aef
214 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, disguised as an owner's manual. The document body also contains the malicious URL and a benign-looking PDF link, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The presence of a callback phishing lure further supports the malicious intent.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns. Suppressed for legitimate-issuer (IRS/gov/official-form) or Microsoft license-boilerplate documents that carry no urgency or charge/dispute escalation.
  • 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=2003+kawasaki+z1000+owners+manual In PDF document text
    • http://files.mx.youngstaekwondo.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739387/7151198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.laurenmonteiro.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695306/dulatu-wofiz-jukufedolowela-pexowoka.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.authoreileengreen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398133/9687727.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/1/0433/9607/1578/files/kixufexemunadekivinolarib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7259/4844/files/xabujivukiv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8568/5153/files/xufumufowalenef.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7341/3028/files/73269745915.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4012/6629/files/86317748121.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/4777166940.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vuxopikuxoxixu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8189/9944/files/6594652070.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2585/8711/files/34168188837.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6732/6110/files/nurasadako.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6032/9637/files/xogera.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4121/0024/files/darotu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9870/9917/files/jenalo.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007858.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7858 5432 bytes
SHA-256: 41c63a726018cfa52f3428c03d73ba49cb76722aca85dc8d146504ba8a2d5df0
font_01_sfnt_off00008adc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ADC 15020 bytes
SHA-256: 2bf15e54bad74d4a7fcdf837aa2dfde2cd2b66e281409074141a06e46ef5f6d3
font_02_sfnt_off0000ba5c.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA5C 16060 bytes
SHA-256: 84d5bd19c210eb3b73ecc14096ab1e56fdfb5b80ce7ba4f0052c67c0c2b02727