Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfe4eba1035a64a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 11:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-08
MD5: 6075e2ef45ee5b0f5b3a62f77b310ace SHA-1: d1982a04158566b9da0ce4fc3947671a4ad94ac4 SHA-256: dfe4eba1035a64a9aaf1cf705c8ee8f29360e215737b8e1002b0c80a3e2af596
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 text related to 'The great debaters movie viewing guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to a phishing or malware distribution site. The presence of multiple Shopify-hosted PDF links indicates a potential link farm used for SEO poisoning to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=the+great+debaters+movie+viewing+guide In PDF document text
    • http://wodorudi.passion4healing.club/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814448/54d0b65.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.serrano-padial.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069887/dokebubuze.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tojaluzad.caulfieldpark.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453960/6158253.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0255/9655/files/66380876910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2632/5402/files/geomorphology_book_by_thornbury.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7405/9430/files/wafasizefukokupogaroxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4607/4525/files/editorial_writing_campus_journalism.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7201/1941/files/4051135961.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1916/6105/files/libure.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6067/4198/files/zegawuwawipoxewafixaw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5555/4458/files/53959709111.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5089/1424/files/50818907409.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8386/6007/files/vixutuga.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5865/8454/files/rotuninazilokake.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7767/1843/files/luzevenu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2247/3624/files/2650264901.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000048f3.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48F3 5328 bytes
SHA-256: 38bca76d0613e9d9f14a02a4172b31d552e792f0fccc0f24d14f0fe4410d9803
font_01_sfnt_off00005afd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AFD 9704 bytes
SHA-256: e47fd2d0086b49d1ce0d198a83e429c3918848e1ba213f59836ebac17c50dfa5
font_02_sfnt_off00007c29.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C29 4324 bytes
SHA-256: cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34